Simon Gottschlag
Chief Technology Officer at Co-native
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolSimon Gottschlag is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO based in Gothenburg with over a decade of experience spanning Linux systems, networking, DevOps, automation and software engineering. He rose through consulting roles at Xenit to executive leadership, now guiding technical strategy at Co-native while remaining active in open source. His contributions to vouch-proxy show practical expertise in SSO/OAuth/OIDC integrations, cookie management and enterprise federation (ADFS/Azure) — evidence of his focus on secure, production-ready authentication flows. A lifelong Linux user and early technologist, Simon blends deep operational knowledge with product-minded engineering and occasionally shares insights via GitHub and YouTube.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Alströmergymnasiet
Swedish, English
Github Skills (14)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
adfs10
sso-authentication10
jwt10
api-design9
golang9
api9
apim9
microsoft-azure8
azure8
oauth7
nginx7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
vouch/vouch-proxy
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 13 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon focused on enhancing the vouch-proxy's authentication and authorization capabilities, particularly for Single Sign-On (SSO) scenarios. The commits demonstrate the implementation of cookie management improvements, and the initial integration of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) support. Further contributions involved making the Azure token configurable and the modification of the user's login flow.
nginxauth-requestsso-solutionsso-loginoauth2
XenitAB/go-oidc-middleware
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenID Connect (OIDC) http middleware for Go
Contributions:44 releases, 20 reviews, 88 commits in 1 year 5 months
golangopenidoidcauthorizationauthentication
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