Stepan Rakitin
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Platform
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStepan Rakitin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and security with 11 years of experience based in Berlin. He builds and operates Kubernetes-first platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure while prioritizing developer experience, observability, and reliability. Stepan has deep expertise in cloud security and compliance (FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and has designed zero-trust systems using PKI and advanced IAM models (OAuth/OIDC, ReBAC, ABAC). He has productionized AI/ML infrastructure for forecasting, optimization and LLMs, marrying performance with a developer-friendly DX. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on core OAuth2/OpenID Connect features in the widely used Ory Hydra project, demonstrating practical security and token-management know-how.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science: Distributed Systems and Databases, Master's degree Computer Science: Distributed Systems and Databases at ITMO University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (13)
databases10
go10
oauth10
database10
openid-connect10
authorization9
security9
server9
sql9
authorizations9
cloud-computing4
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ory/hydra
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
The most scalable and customizable OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth Provider on the market. Become an OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider over night. Broad support for related RFCs. Written in Go, cloud native, headless, API-first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Stepan primarily contributed to the core back-end functionality of the Ory Hydra project, focusing on OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider features. Their work involved implementing refresh token reuse detection and modifying database interactions within `persistence/sql/persister_oauth2.go`. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to token management and the refresh token hook. The user also updated test cases to include refresh token hook functionality, demonstrating comprehensive understanding of the project.
hardware-securityany-languagefederationoauth2-serveriam
svrakitin/terraform-provider-hydra
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Terraform provider for ory/hydra
Contributions:14 releases, 14 reviews, 19 commits in 1 year 4 months
providerhydraterraformjwksoauth2
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