Jared Hanson

Co-Founder @ Keycard

About

Jared is a software engineer and entrepreneur. As an engineer, Jared has architected, designed and developed everything from desktop and mobile applications down to embedded systems and up to cloud-based services. He is also an expert at identity management and security, crucial to applications at every layer. His combination of expertise and experience is uniquely suited to the challenges of taking technology from idea to implementation. Jared has worked alongside founding teams to define and deliver products which are critical to Fortune 500 enterprises and small businesses, enjoyed by consumers, and depended on by developers. Along the way, he's helped grow multiple companies from a handful of people to hundreds of employees, financial stability, and successful acquisitions. Additionally, Jared is an active contributor to open source software. He is the lead developer of Passport.js, the popular authentication framework for Node.js. Downloaded over 2 million times per month, it powers authentication for innumerable applications on the Internet. He has a portfolio of over 300 repositories freely available on GitHub. Connect with Jared on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/jaredhanson GitHub - https://github.com/jaredhanson AngelList - https://angel.co/jaredhanson

Country

United States

City

Berkeley

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

JavaScript, Software Development, Objective-C, Web Applications, Web Services, TCP/IP, Distributed Systems, Ruby, Node.js, Git, Java, SOAP, Ruby on Rails, Python, OS X, OAuth, Representational State Transfer (REST), C++, HTML, Qt

Experience

Co-Founder

Keycard

2024-12 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Principal Product Architect

Okta

2022-4 - 2024-12 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Senior Product Architect

Okta

2019-5 - 2022-3 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Advisor

Dynamic

2022-3 - 2023-6 · 1 yr 4 mos

Chief Architect

Auth0

2015-3 - 2019-5 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Lead development of identity and access management (IAM) platform, trusted by global enterprises, small businesses and start-ups to handle over 1.5 billion logins per month and securely control access to resources. Define and develop a comprehensive suite for identity management. Authentication supports passwords, MFA (OTP, OOB, FIDO) and federation (OpenID Connect, SAML). Authorization with RBAC policies or extensible JavaScript API. Directory support for LDAP, AD, SCIM, and proprietary protocols. Session management and SSO. Application integration using standard OAuth 2.0 web-based flows or API-based token issuance. Collaborate with sales, professional services, and customer support to integrate Auth0's IAM platform into customer's new and existing applications and infrastructure. Evangelize Auth0 by presenting at conferences (Identiverse, Internet Identity Workshop) and meetups and engaging with industry analysts and partners. Series E at $1B+ valuation, May 2019

Software Engineer

NodePrime

2013-11 - 2015-1 · 1 yr 3 mos

San Francisco, CA

Lead team building software-defined data center platform for discovery, provisioning and monitoring of systems. Microservices-based architecture with etcd for service discovery and RabbitMQ for messaging over AMQP. Automatic reconfiguration and load balancing of RESTful APIs with nginx. Connectivity to remote hosts over reverse SSH tunnels. Security using OAuth 2.0 access tokens. Develop a daemon for taking inventory, monitoring performance and provisioning of hardware components and software processes on a host computer. Written in Node.js with plugin-based architecture. Discover systems via DHCP. Manage systems via IPMI. Read firmware information via SMBIOS. Interface with storage devices via ATAPI. Acquired by Ericsson, April 2016.

Software Developer

Sifteo

2011-4 - 2013-11 · 2 yrs 8 mos

San Francisco, CA

Design and develop desktop application for managing and playing games on Sifteo Cubes interactive game system. Utilized Qt C++ framework. Implemented HTML5 UI with custom JavaScript APIs running in embedded WebKit. Controlled hardware devices connected via USB. Integrated web services using JSON REST APIs. Acquired by 3D Robotics, July 2014.

Software Engineer

Aspera

2005-5 - 2011-4 · 6 yrs

Emeryville, CA

Member of initial team of five people. Responsible for architecting and implementing server-side middleware and client-side applications, both crucial to integration of Aspera's fast file transfer into customer and partner environments. Cross-platform desktop application for controlling file transfers developed in Qt C++ framework. Browser plugin (NPAPI, ActiveX) adds JavaScript API for initiating and managing transfers from web applications. Server-side middleware developed in C/C++. Exposes SOAP API with WS-Addressing and WS-Notification for integration with third-party applications. Acquired by IBM, December 2013.

President & Founder

Helixent

2004-11 - 2010-1 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Develop movie organizer and player for Mac OS X. Implemented using Xcode tools and platform technologies including Objective-C, Cocoa, and QuickTime.

Software Engineer

Innovative Systems

2003-5 - 2005-5 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mitchell, SD

Develop C/C++ libraries and drivers for IMS application server providing voice and video services. Embedded system consisting of Linux OS and PowerPC CPU.