Thomas Curran
Advisor at Northern Data Group
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolThomas Curran is an Irish-American technology entrepreneur and seasoned software leader with over three decades of experience building cloud-native platforms, founding seven high-tech ventures, and guiding Fortune 500 technology and media firms. As founder of Ory and current head of Build AI Labs at Alembic Technologies, he blends hands-on engineering and open-source stewardship with strategic product and go-to-market leadership, having scaled Ory to $1M+ ARR and enterprise customers like OpenAI and MistralAI. He now advises private equity and startups on AI cloud infrastructure, software supply-chain security, and product transformation while actively angel investing in AI-first software for enterprises and prosumers. A prolific board and advisory member across companies from Deutsche Börse to ReversingLabs, he brings rare experience spanning low-level systems, identity/privacy-first platforms, and large GPU cloud deployments. Notably, his background includes driving Hybris’s cloud pivot prior to its SAP acquisition and helping build one of Europe’s largest neo-cloud GPU clusters, signaling deep operational know-how in scaling both software and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Research and Teaching Assistant Department of Computer Science, Research and Teaching Assistant Department of Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor of Science Statistics Decision Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Statistics Decision Science Computer Science at The Wharton School
Japanese, Italian, German, English
Github Skills (170)
identity10
authentication10
recovery10
security10
infrastructure10
openid-provider10
oauth-provider10
cloud-native10
entitlements10
hydra10
permission10
acl10
data-protection10
sign-in-with-apple10
user-profile10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tacurran/imarum-io
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
tacurran/workshop-dbg
Feb 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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