Ki-eun Shin
Team Leader at FIDO Alliance
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolKi-eun Shin is a seasoned authentication and identity engineering leader with eight years of focused experience building scalable, standards-based security platforms for large consumer services. Currently leading technical efforts at SK Telecom, she architected the company's Passkey SaaS platform and integrated passkey authentication into national identity apps. A long-time contributor to W3C WebAuthn and an invited expert and vice chair in FIDO/Korea working groups, she helps translate evolving open standards (FIDO, WebAuthn, OAuth/OIDC) into production systems. Her career includes pioneering FIDO2 deployment for mobile payments at LINE and delivering one of the world’s first FIDO universal server certifications. Known for combining product ownership with hands-on server development, she balances security, scalability and practical onboarding workflows. Based in Seoul, she brings uncommon cross-domain expertise spanning standards advocacy, platform architecture and real-world deployment at scale.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Korea UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science (Mobile Communication), Master of Science (MS) Computer Science (Mobile Communication) at Sungkyunkwan University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (69)
authentication10
spring-boot-admin10
fingerprint10
public-key10
webauthn10
java10
spring-boot10
spring10
security9
rest-api-documentation9
android9
spring-rest-docs9
spring-cloud9
api-specification8
rest8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
skt-passkey/passkey-rp-sample
Jun 2023 - May 2025
Passkey Relying Party Sample Application
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 11 months
passkeyfidofido2relying-partywebauthn
sktston/spring-asciidoctor-backends-custom
Apr 2024 - Sep 2025
A backend for Asciidoctor used to produce Spring styled HTML
Contributions:18 releases, 31 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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