Sebastian Rose
Lead Systems Engineer at Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Rose is a Lead Systems Engineer based in Wiesbaden with 11 years of experience designing sustainable identity and access management solutions for digital products and services. He combines hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions to the prominent open-source Keycloak project—with leadership roles across public and private sectors, most recently at Statistisches Bundesamt. His background spans IAM consulting and software development at codecentric, AOE, and msg systems, bringing practical expertise in authorization, token flows, and secure registration workflows. With a Master’s in Computer Science from TU Darmstadt and a research stint as a doctoral candidate, he blends academic rigor with production-grade engineering. Notably, his Keycloak work tackles real-world authorization edge cases and admin UI enhancements, showing attention to both security logic and user-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
English
Github Skills (14)
keycloak10
javas10
oid10
authentication10
authorizations10
user-authentication10
oauth10
authorization10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
security9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Jan 2015 - Feb 2022
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 11 commits, 24 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the Keycloak project, focusing on back-end functionalities related to identity and access management. Their work involved modifying the `ConstraintAuthorizationHandler` to handle header configurations and authorization logic. They also addressed issues with client sessions in the token endpoint and improved the functionality for registration and forgot password pages. Additional contributions include bug fixes and enhancements related to the admin UI.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
srose/keycloak-project-example
Jun 2021 - Feb 2024
A template project for Keycloak Customizations
Contributions:10 PRs, 238 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 8 months
keycloakcustomizations
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