Florian Forster
- Co-founded ZITADEL in 2019 with a team from the Swiss public sector
- Built a self-hostable, multi-tenant identity platform on an event-sourced architecture
Bio
Florian Forster co-founded ZITADEL in 2019 with a group of colleagues from a Swiss public-sector employer, aiming at a gap they kept hitting: a developer-focused identity platform that supports both self-hosting and real multi-tenancy rather than treating one as an afterthought.
Profile built from public company and project records.
Where their work shows up
ZITADEL is event-sourced, which is an unusual choice for identity and a deliberate one: every change to a user, a role, or a policy is an immutable event, so the audit trail is the data model rather than a log written next to it. For anyone who has had to reconstruct who granted what and when during an incident, that distinction is the whole argument. See the ZITADEL profile and what is IGA for why audit trails carry weight.
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