159: Supertokens with Rishabh Poddar

Rishabh Poddar is the CTO and co-founder of SuperTokens, an open source user authentication service. Rishabh has always been fascinated with computers and began coding when he was 12 years old. Programming came easily to him, and he loved doing it, so he went to school for computer science and made it his career.

In this episode, we have a conversation about creating SuperTokens and how they work compared to other authentication techniques. Rishabh shares how to prevent impersonation, the architecture of SuperTokens, tips for JavaScript developers, and more.

Show Highlights:

• Rishabh's earliest memory with a computer.
• Why he created an operating system from scratch.
• What got Rishabh interested in authentication.
• What a rotating refresh token is.
• What SuperTokens core strength is.
• How passwordless authentication works.
• What cross origin resource sharing (CORS) is.
• What the SuperTokens business model us.

Links:

• Rishabh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rishpoddar
• Rishabh on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabh-poddar-b64b73129/
• Rishabh on Github: https://github.com/rishabhpoddar