Yuriy Ackermann
CEO at Easy Dynamics Corp
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolYuriy Ackermann is a CEO and identity security specialist with 11 years’ experience focused on eliminating password-based authentication through FIDO2, WebAuthn and passkey technologies. Based in Dubai, he combines hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by significant contributions to the webauthn-demo repository—with leadership roles at the FIDO Alliance and his own consultancy, Webauthn Works, helping organizations adopt phishing‑resistant auth. He writes conformance tests, develops certification tools, and advises standards bodies as an invited W3C WebAuthn expert, bridging technical rigor with practical deployment. Known for long, detail-oriented conversations about best practices (and oddly, truffle oil), he pairs deep protocol knowledge with real-world implementation and training experience.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Victoria University of WellingtonUniversity of AucklandMount Maunganui College
deutsche, English, Russian
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
expressjs10
apidoc10
webauthn10
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
nodejs10
session-management9
rest9
html9
jquery8
css7
yubico6
encryption6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fido-alliance/webauthn-demo
Jan 2018 - Feb 2021
WebAuthn Workshop Demo [Completed DEMO is at completed demo-branch]
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yuriy appears to have been heavily involved in building out the core functionality of a web application, likely for WebAuthn demo purposes, as suggested by the repository description. They started with an initial app template and then progressively added features, including basic registration and login APIs, session management, and static file serving. The user also integrated jQuery for front-end interactions and built out the registration and login interfaces, including the handling of WebAuthn interactions.
webauthnworkshop
herrjemand/U2F-Flask-Demo
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:164 commits, 22 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years 11 months
flaskpythonu2f
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