Sorin Manole is a Berlin-based builder with 10 years of experience creating resilient platforms across AI, security, identity, search, and cloud systems. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—shaping search microservices and recommendation engines at Flix, leading R&D and passkey product strategy at Nord Security, and now maintaining an open-source AI security gateway using local ML models. His background includes scaling real-time fraud detection pipelines and contributing backend improvements to the Open Bank Project, demonstrating comfort with regulated, high-security domains like banking and authentication. Sorin pairs product vision with pragmatic delivery—defining roadmaps, running experiments, and shipping prototypes that span from gait-based personalization to FIDO2 passkeys. Notably, he has driven industry-level change through FIDO Alliance involvement and a Silver Globee award-winning initiative, signaling impact beyond code.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science IT, BSc Computer Science IT at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
MSc studies Cloud Computing, MSc studies Cloud Computing at Munster Technological University
An open source RESTful API platform for banks that supports Open Banking, XS2A, PSD2 and Open Finance through access to accounts, transactions, counterparties, payments, entitlements and metadata - plus a host of internal banking and management APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sorin contributed to the development of the Open Bank Project API, focusing on adding and modifying API roles and implementing new API endpoints. Their work included creating entitlements for sandbox environments and splitting API roles into bank and system roles. They also addressed import issues and resolved code conflicts within the API's codebase, indicating a hands-on role in managing and refining the API's functionality.
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