Mi Tar
Executive Director at Layer8
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
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RockstarMi Tar is an Executive Director and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience bridging backend systems, security, and full‑stack work from Ljubljana. She combines hands‑on contributions to high‑impact open source projects—such as security fixes for Ory Hydra and Fosite used by large platforms—with practical developer tooling and API work across GitLab, Django, Meteor and Go ecosystems. Her strengths include hardening OAuth2/OpenID Connect flows, improving robustness of client libraries, and pragmatic DevOps improvements for complex builds. Comfortable across languages and layers, she moves between Go, Python, JavaScript and DevOps scripts while also contributing clear documentation and tests. Colleagues describe her as equally at home in code, docs, and operational playbooks, often finding and fixing subtle security and edge‑case bugs that others miss.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (110)
parserator10
url-routing10
apim10
cms10
authorizations10
parser10
python10
package-management10
testing10
databases10
django-cms10
authentication10
structured-logging10
security10
apache-arrow10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
ory/fosite
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Extensible security first OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 reviews, 37 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mi primarily contributed to improving the `fosite` library, an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go. Their work involved fixing various issues such as removing unused methods and fields, improving error messages, and enhancing client authentication mechanisms. They also added support for ES256 token strategies and made configurations more flexible while ensuring responses included headers to prevent caching.
golangconnect-sdkopenidoidcauthorization
django-guardian/django-guardian
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Per object permissions for Django
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 57 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mi made several contributions to the django-guardian project, focusing on the backend logic and functionality. They implemented changes to the `get_objects_for_user` and `get_objects_for_group` functions, allowing for more flexible permission handling, including the ability to specify an empty list of permissions. They also added and expanded upon unit tests to verify the correct behavior of the core permission retrieval functions. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation and form handling for increased precision in assigned permissions.
djangopermissionspythonauthentication
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