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Public AI infrastructure
Internship · final auth wiring in review · 2026
CFIA AI Lab: Shared Authentication and ML Infrastructure
One platform depended on provider-specific authentication.
- Role
- Software Intern
Public product context
Protected requests cross one reviewable boundary
- React call sitesProtected requests
- Provider-neutral clientToken handling
- Selected providerEntra or OIDC path
- FastAPI verificationJWT + discovery/JWKS
- Protected serviceFail-closed request
- React call sitesProvider-neutral client
- Provider-neutral clientselectSelected provider
- Selected providertokenFastAPI verification
- FastAPI verificationverifiedProtected service
The work, in five lines
- Problem
- One platform depended on provider-specific authentication.
- Owned
- I owned the public auth and ML infrastructure slices.
- Changed
- Protected requests moved behind a provider-neutral boundary.
- Difficult
- React, FastAPI, Kubernetes, secrets, and storage had to agree.
- Verified
- 17 merged PRs: Merged PR #827 · Merged PR #846 · Merged PR #430 · Merged PR #445 · Open PR #851
Open the evidence
- Auth boundaryMerged PR #827merged (opens in a new tab)
- JWT validationMerged PR #846merged (opens in a new tab)
- MLflow validationMerged PR #430merged (opens in a new tab)
- FiftyOne validationMerged PR #445merged (opens in a new tab)
- Final auth wiringOpen PR #851open (opens in a new tab)
Public authored pull requests support the provider-neutral auth boundary and bounded ML storage/deployment claims.