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Stian Thorgersen

Co-founder and Project Lead, Keycloak · Red Hat · 13+ years in identity
Focus areas
Open Source IdentityOpenID ConnectOAuthSAML
Notable work
  • Co-founded the Keycloak project at Red Hat in 2013 and leads it
  • Co-author of Keycloak: Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

Bio

Stian Thorgersen co-founded Keycloak at Red Hat in 2013 and is its project lead and top contributor. He is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat and co-wrote the book most teams learn Keycloak from.

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Keycloak is the reason a team can run standards-complete OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML 2.0 without a vendor contract, which matters most where data residency, air-gapped deployment, or budget rules out SaaS. It anchors the open-source end of the market; see the open-source identity vendors and the best IAM platforms ranking for where self-hosting sits against managed options.

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