The Challenge
Janrain was pioneering Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), helping enterprises manage user registration, authentication, and profile data at scale. Major brands relied on the platform to handle millions of customer identities securely.
The challenge: build identity infrastructure that could scale to millions of users while meeting enterprise security and compliance requirements.
Our Approach
- Lead Engineering: Led software engineering efforts on core identity platform
- Scale Architecture: Built systems handling millions of user identity operations
- Enterprise Security: Implemented security patterns meeting enterprise compliance needs
- Integration APIs: Developed APIs enabling seamless integration with enterprise systems
Architecture
flowchart TB
subgraph Users["End Users"]
Social[Social Login]
Email[Email/Password]
SSO[Enterprise SSO]
end
subgraph CIAM["Janrain CIAM Platform"]
Auth[Authentication]
Profile[Profile Management]
Consent[Consent Management]
end
subgraph Enterprise["Enterprise Clients"]
CRM[CRM Systems]
Marketing[Marketing Tools]
Apps[Customer Apps]
end
Social & Email & SSO --> Auth
Auth --> Profile
Profile --> Consent
Profile --> CRM
Profile --> Marketing
Auth --> Apps
Results
The platform became a leader in customer identity management:
- Managed millions of user identities for enterprise clients
- Established patterns for secure, scalable identity operations
- Supported major brand customers with reliable identity infrastructure
- Contributed to technology that led to Akamai acquisition
