# Co-founder and CTO, Ory

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Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Aeneas Rekkas designed and implemented Ory Hydra and co-founded the Ory project in 2015 with Thomas Aidan Curran, forming a company around it in 2019. The Ory stack splits identity into separate services: Hydra for OAuth and OIDC, Kratos for identity and user management, Keto for permissions, and Oathkeeper as an access proxy.

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## Where their work shows up

Most identity servers ship as one monolith that owns the user store, the login UI, and the token endpoint together. Ory's separation, an OAuth server that holds no user credentials at all, is a real architectural position: it lets a team keep its own user database and login experience while still issuing standards-compliant tokens. See the [Ory profile](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/open-source/ory/), [OAuth vs OIDC](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/oauth-vs-oidc/), and [RBAC vs ABAC vs ReBAC](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/rbac-vs-abac-vs-rebac/) for the model Keto implements.