Magnus Jungsbluth
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMagnus Jungsbluth is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Zalando with over a decade of experience designing secure, scalable backend systems and identity architectures. He progressed from Principal IAM Architect to senior technical leadership, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, DevOps and data architecture forged at companies like Bundesdruckerei and The unbelievable Machine Company. An active open-source contributor, Magnus has made notable backend and control-plane contributions to the widely used Open Policy Agent project, improving logging, discovery and tracing for policy evaluation at scale. He combines a scientific grounding in physics and applied computer science from Göttingen and Uppsala with hands-on engineering, often tackling subtle operational issues that improve observability and resilience. Based in Berlin, he is known for turning complex security and policy requirements into pragmatic, auditable implementations across large organizations.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Physiker, Physik, Diplom-Physiker, Physik at Georg-August-Universität GöttingenInformatik, Informatik at Uppsala universitet
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Github Skills (23)
authorizations10
policies10
open-policy-agent10
go10
authorization10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
distributed-tracing9
cloud-native9
rest-api9
devops8
oracle6
domain-driven-design6
multi-tenant6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Magnus contributed to the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project by implementing features related to logging, including the ability to configure logger fields. They also worked on enhancing the discovery plugin by adding features for adding labels and enabling tracing for control plane traffic. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to decision logging and the unregistration of discovery listeners. Their work involved modifications to various plugins, including rest, and core components of the SDK.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
mjungsbluth/opa
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
An open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Contributions:5 PRs, 47 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 11 months
policysecuritypolicy-enginepurposegeneral-purpose
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