Tolga Ozen
Co-Founder at Permify (acquired by FusionAuth)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTolga Ozen is a San Francisco–based software engineer and serial founder with 8 years of experience building production-ready web services and developer tooling. As Co-Founder of Permify (acquired by FusionAuth) he led backend development for an open-source, Zanzibar-inspired authorization API, focusing on refactoring, relationship management, and scalable access-control primitives. Tolga blends product-minded entrepreneurship from multiple startups with hands-on engineering in Go and API design, shipping features that make apps easier and faster to build. His background in management information systems and business gives him a pragmatic view of product-market fit and technical trade-offs, and he tends to gravitate toward hard problems in fine-grained authorization and developer experience.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, İktisat Fakültesi - İşletme, Licentiate degree, İktisat Fakültesi - İşletme at Istanbul University
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Github Skills (10)
go10
api10
apidoc10
grpc10
database-design9
json9
nodejs6
rest6
abac6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Permify/permify
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 releases, 4 reviews, 482 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tolga primarily focused on refactoring the codebase and implementing features related to managing relationships within the authorization system. Their work involved modifying documentation, implementing API endpoints, and updating the internal data structures to support entities. The changes suggest a focus on improving the system's capabilities for managing fine-grained access control and authorization. Their work involves refactoring requests related to write, delete, and read operations.
grpciamfine-grained-authorizationauthorization-serviceabac
tolgaOzen/joosephAPI
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:475 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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