Damian Schenkelman
VP R&D - Auth0Lab at Okta
Argentina
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Top SchoolDamian Schenkelman is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building identity and security platforms, currently heading R&D for Auth0Lab at Okta where he focuses on AI+identity, developer portals, and reusable app UI components. He rose through hands-on roles at Auth0—from senior engineer who scaled Auth0’s APIs and multi-region failover to director-level org-building—and now leads research into fine-grained authorization, decentralized identity, and verifiable credentials. A pragmatic architect and contributor to notable open-source clients like auth0/node-auth0 and auth0.net, he brings deep API, backend, and QA experience (including refactors, tests, and regional support). Damian combines product-minded systems design with people-first engineering practices—introducing SRE, RFCs, hiring frameworks, and IC ladders—that helped scale teams and reliability. Based in Argentina, he pairs a strong academic foundation in computer engineering with a track record of turning research prototypes into production-grade identity services.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at ORT Technical School (Highschool)Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Buenos Aires
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Github Skills (37)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
javascript10
roslyn10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scriptcs/scriptcs
Mar 2013 - Dec 2013
Write C# apps with a text editor, nuget and the power of Roslyn!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:88 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Damian contributed significantly to the core functionality of the ScriptCs project. They added and enhanced unit tests for the ScriptExecutor and DebugFilePreProcessor components, indicating a focus on testing and quality assurance. The changes include modifications to existing code and the addition of new test cases, suggesting an active role in maintaining and improving the robustness of the codebase. Further contributions involved refactoring, and implementing a compilation step to create .dll output, demonstrating back-end engineering skills.
roslyndotnetcsxscriptcsc-sharp
auth0/node-auth0
Jul 2014 - Sep 2016
Node.js client library for the Auth0 platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the development of the `node-auth0` library, focusing on user metadata and app metadata updates. Their work involved creating and refactoring code for metadata management, including updating user and app metadata, along with the related testing. The user also improved the code structure by extracting reusable components and refactoring code to use promises. They integrated support for different regions and domains.
js-clientclient-librarynode-jsauthenticationdx-sdk
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