Alan Kesselmann
Consulting CTO CPO at Alan Kesselmann consulting
Estonia
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Top SchoolAlan Kesselmann is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with 16 years of experience building and scaling software teams and products across startups and consultancies. Currently leading a Maritime AI venture and offering CTO/CPO consulting, he combines hands-on engineering instincts with strategic product leadership to align software with business goals. His background spans founding and running a software consultancy, leading EU operations for a venture-backed startup, and steering technical and sales teams through challenging times such as the COVID-19 downturn. A pragmatic back-end developer by training, he has contributed to open-source Django social authentication components, improving OpenID and Facebook flows and fixing tricky duplicate-user and email-handling issues. Known as an accessible leader who helps others generate ideas and grow, he balances people-first management with deep delivery focus to find product-market fit quickly. Based in Estonia, he has a track record of turning ambiguous problems into actionable roadmaps and shipped solutions.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Keila Gümnaasium
English, Estonian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
python10
django10
authentication10
user-authentication10
facebook10
social-authentication10
openid9
html6
x-axis6
django-templates6
django-models6
django-forms6
jquery6
django-signals6
ajax6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
agiliq/Django-Socialauth
Feb 2010 - Mar 2010
Allows logging in via Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail, Twitter and Openid
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the backend of the Django-based social authentication application. Their work focused on refining the authentication workflows, particularly for OpenID and Facebook integrations. They addressed issues with duplicate user creation, implemented email requests for Facebook authentication, and modified authentication backends to save user email information. Additionally, they made minor adjustments to configuration examples and code to align with package updates.
gmailloggingopenidtwitter
OdifYltsaeb/olem_landing
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:29 pushes in 1 day
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