Rainer Hörbe
Consultant And Software Developer at Freelance
Gemeinde Tulln an der Donau, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolRainer Hörbe is a seasoned Security Architect and IAM specialist with over a decade of experience shaping identity, federation and PKI strategies for e‑Government, healthcare and enterprise clients, currently advising KPMG Austria on IAM, PAM and PKI aligned to DORA, NIS‑2 and NIST. He combines hands‑on software and architecture experience—from leading Austria’s citizen identifier registry and federation work to contributing backend improvements to the widely used pysaml2 SAML2 Python library—with practical regulatory and standards expertise. Rainer has organized and chaired community initiatives like the TIIME conference and Kantara’s eGov working group, reflecting his knack for translating complex standards into interoperable deployments. Based in Lower Austria, he balances consulting, teaching and open‑source contributions, and is known for pragmatic solutions that bridge policy, protocol and implementation.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universität WienHTL Mödling
German, English
Github Skills (6)
federation10
python10
saml10
testing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
IdentityPython/pysaml2
Mar 2014 - Aug 2017
Python implementation of SAML2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rainer primarily contributed to the `pysaml2` library by adding features, correcting descriptions, and addressing dependencies. They implemented support for RFC 1123 date format and AT government SAML profile attributes. The user also corrected typos and improved assertion and metadata validation, demonstrating a focus on improving the functionality and usability of the SAML2 implementation. They also addressed issues related to the test framework.
pythonidppython-implementationsaml2identity-provider
identinetics/d-shibsp
Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:312 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 3 years 7 months
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