Poovamraj Thiagarajan
Engineering Manager - FGA Core at Auth0
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolPoovamraj Thiagarajan is an engineering leader and polyglot developer with nine years of experience building real-time communication servers, mobile apps, and full-stack systems, now managing the FGA Core team at Auth0 in Munich. He progressed from senior and staff engineering roles into management while contributing hands-on to security-sensitive open-source projects like Auth0's React Native and Android toolkits and the java-jwt library. His work demonstrates a focus on reliability and security—adding thread-safe credential management, coroutine support, MFA flows, and tests to production libraries. Comfortable across backend, mobile, and QA, he pairs systems-thinking with practical fixes that reduce concurrency bugs and harden token handling. Based in Germany but with an international career spanning India, Canada, and Europe, he enjoys experimenting with new languages and bringing that curiosity to shipping robust developer-facing tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Rajalakshmi Engineering College
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (29)
algorithm10
kotlin10
algorithms10
javascript10
mobile-development10
react-native10
thread-safety10
testing10
factor-authentication10
user-authentication10
authentication10
android-sdk10
java10
javas10
android10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
auth0/react-native-auth0
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
React Native toolkit for Auth0 API
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 167 reviews, 38 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Poovamraj primarily contributed to the React Native toolkit for Auth0 API by addressing issues related to React Native compatibility and providing backward compatibility. They fixed warnings encountered during linking, particularly within the `agent.js` file, and ensured proper removal of event listeners. Additionally, the user implemented Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) APIs, including flows for OTP, OOB, and recovery codes, and added tests for these flows.
apireactreact-nativeauthenticationdx-sdk
auth0/java-jwt
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:4 releases, 37 reviews, 65 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Poovamraj primarily contributed to the testing and maintenance of the Java-based JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. Their work focused on replacing deprecated methods within existing test files to ensure the project's continued compatibility and stability. They also deprecated and removed ES256K support, updating documentation, and implemented protection against potential security vulnerabilities. Additionally, the user added lint checks and improved exception handling.
tokenjson-web-tokendx-sdkweb-tokenjava
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