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Jun 14, 2024

OpenID Connect Sessions: Logout Is Harder Than Login

Everyone mostly understands the OIDC login flow correct. It’s simple and staight-forward, you do the authorization code flow, validate the ID Token, set a session cookie, and done. Logout is where things becomes a bit complex and they usually happen silently.

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May 19, 2024

My RubyKaigi 2024 Experience

Hi, I’m Bala 👋

I joined Money Forward in 2022 and have been working closely with Ruby on the ID team ever since. This year, I got the opportunity to attend RubyKaigi 2024

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Feb 2, 2024

Passkey Autofill for seamless passwordless authentication

In the previous blog, we understood of what passkeys are and how they can be deployed in web application.

In this post, we’ll move next step and talk about the next major piece: passkey autofill.

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Jun 15, 2023

The nuts and bolts of oauth2.0 (part2)

This is part 2 of nuts and bolts of OAuth 2.0, continuing part 1. In this section, I’ll explore the client credentials flow for machine-to-machine communication

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Bala

An ID Developer at Money Forward, Tokyo. Designing secure authentication solutions using OAuth2.0, OpenID, SAML, and Passkeys. Experienced in microservices, DevOps, and SRE optimizations. Passionate about building robust, secure identity systems. LinkedIn.

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