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Auth API
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CAREER PROJECT · Intermediate · 1 weekend
Authentication + Permissions Service
Implement sessions or tokens, role permissions, password reset and audit events.
AuthenticationAuthorizationSecuritySQLTesting
DEFINITION OF DONE
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02
Permission matrix
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03
Threat notes
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04
Tests
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05
Audit log demo
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Implemented an authentication and role-based authorization service with security-focused tests and audit events.
Use this as a starting structure, then replace it with your real implementation details, metrics and constraints. Do not claim outcomes you did not measure.
STRETCH GOALS
Go deeper if the core is already solid.
MFA
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
OAuth provider
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
Device sessions
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.