Lars Johansen
Founding Lead Engineer at Dream Technologies
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Johansen is a Founding Lead Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, scalable systems, now leading engineering at Dream Technologies in San Jose. Previously a Principal Software Engineer at Okta, he led the Inbound Federations team in Access Management, combining deep security expertise with reliability-focused engineering at scale. His background blends rigorous academic training—graduate work at Harvard and a Master’s thesis on Network Coding at MIT—with practical product delivery across startups and enterprise environments. Comfortable across distributed systems and identity protocols, he’s known for turning complex security requirements into operational, efficient solutions. Born and raised in Oslo, he brings a disciplined, outdoorsy mindset to work-life balance—often found hiking or playing tennis—and a surprising creative streak in the kitchen.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (1)
okta10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
larskrjo/johansen.io
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:30 PRs, 420 pushes, 36 branches in 9 months
professional-websiteprofessionalnextjs
larskrjo/scrabble
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:51 commits in 21 days
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