Paul Querna
Co-Founder And CTO at ConductorOne
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Querna is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CTO with over two decades of experience building scalable internet infrastructure, cybersecurity, and consumer-facing systems from the ground up. As Co-Founder and CTO of ConductorOne he leads the engineering of a cloud-native identity and access management platform securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, after founding ScaleFT (acquired by Okta) where he continued shaping access products at Okta. A long-time Apache contributor and former VP of Infrastructure, Paul has shipped low-level, portable improvements to projects like Apache HTTP Server, APR and Traffic Server, and authored high-performance Go libraries such as ffjson and a TOTP implementation. He blends systems-level expertise in distributed systems and networking with product-minded execution, having worked across startups and large cloud providers (Rackspace, Cloudkick) and even optimized developer tools like the Silver Searcher. Based in Portland, Paul is known for solving thorny portability and performance problems with elegant, production-ready code.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (74)
python10
testing10
http10
c1110
c1710
lua10
code-generation10
libuv10
file-processing10
command-line-tool10
apache-http-server10
operating-system10
fileheader10
api10
c-language10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pquerna/otp
Dec 2014 - Nov 2020
TOTP library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 64 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the development of a TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password) library in Go. Their work included implementing features like account name extraction, generating TOTP keys, and validating passcodes. The user added unit tests to ensure the correctness of the implemented features and integrated test vectors from RFC-6238 to ensure compliance with the standard. Furthermore, the user refactored some code for HOTP and TOTP implementations.
golangtotpfactorotp
pquerna/ffjson
Mar 2014 - Sep 2019
faster JSON serialization for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:309 commits, 90 PRs, 110 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the development of a faster JSON serialization library for Go. Their commits focused on implementing the core functionality of a code generator, including a parser to extract struct information and a template renderer to create optimized serialization code. The contributions involved creating functions for extracting struct fields, generating marshal functions for specific types, and integrating various Go packages for generating code for JSON serialization.
golangjson-serializationjsonpathserializationfaster
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