Vincent Kraus
Developer Advocate
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVincent Kraus is a Developer Advocate with six years of experience based in Berlin, specializing in developer experience and cloud-native identity tooling. At Ory Corp he blends hands-on technical writing with community engagement, improving docs and examples for scalable authentication projects like Ory Kratos used for billion-user identity systems. His background in electrical engineering and earlier freelance translation work gives him a knack for clear, precise technical communication across audiences. Comfortable fixing subtle doc bugs and refactoring complex guides, he focuses on making secure auth patterns and integrations approachable for engineers. Enthusiastic about collaboration, he often surfaces UX and DX improvements that are easy to miss but materially reduce friction for adoptation.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Bachelor, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Technische Universität Berlin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
markdown10
doc10
api-documentation10
markdown-it10
docusaurus10
documentation10
identity-management9
github8
kratos6
oauth6
google-oauth6
server6
csrf6
security6
ory6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ory/docs
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
The Ory documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:552 reviews, 169 commits, 542 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating the documentation for the Ory project. Their commits focused on adding warnings, refactoring text to reflect name changes, reordering documentation sections, fixing typos, correcting examples, adding upgrade guides, and generally improving the style and organization of the documentation. They also added example pages, fixed broken links, and removed outdated content.
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ory/kratos
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:28 reviews, 83 commits, 119 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to improving documentation within the repository. Their work included fixing broken links in API documentation, removing outdated notices, and correcting typos in error messages. They also updated documentation to reflect supported features, such as importing credentials, and added example code.
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