Balázs Orbán
Software Engineer at Unite AS
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolBalázs Orbán is a Technical Lead based in Oslo with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and shaping developer-facing frameworks. He has been a core contributor to Next.js and Vercel projects, improving developer experience and edge runtime behaviors—most notably refining cookie handling and authentication flows in widely used repositories. Creator of Auth.js and an active open-source maintainer, he blends backend security and IAM expertise with frontend polish, TypeScript conversions, and UX fixes. Multilingual (Hungarian/Norwegian/JavaScript) and community-minded, he also maintains Hungarian React docs to lower barriers for non-English speakers. Known for pragmatic, spec-compliant engineering, he often surfaces subtle bugs and improves testability and observability across projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Pre-Engineering, High School, Pre-Engineering at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)Certificate of Secondary Education, English Bilingual class, Certificate of Secondary Education, English Bilingual class at Barcs, Széchényi Ferenc Gimnázium és KollégiumHigh School, General Studies, High School, General Studies at Aust-Lofoten videregående skole, Svolvær, NorwayNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Hungarian, Norwegian
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
github10
testing10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
nextjs10
next-auth10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
cookie10
react10
auth10
apidoc9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nextauthjs/next-auth-example
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 670 commits, 57 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Balázs contributed to the NextAuth.js example project by addressing JWT-related issues in API routes, simplifying the NextAuth initialization process, and modifying the project's footer to correctly display package versions. They also added logging and other minor changes to a middleware file, potentially for debugging or access control. The contributions focused on authentication aspects, UI components and API route modifications.
next-jsreactauthenticationpasswordlessnextauth
vercel/next.js
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
The React Framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1361 reviews, 290 commits, 706 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Balázs primarily contributed to the Next.js framework, making changes to the codebase and example projects. Their contributions included making improvements to the developer experience, such as making `.env` files clickable in the terminal and fixing navigation issues. They also addressed and converted existing examples to TypeScript, improved the look of the error overlay, and brought example projects up to date, demonstrating experience in frontend development and the utilization of frameworks like Next.js.
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