Falco Winkler is a Team Lead AI based in Oslo with a decade of experience building backend and mobile systems, machine learning solutions, and secure production deployments. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to popular open-source projects like next-auth with OAuth provider integrations and session strategy improvements—with people leadership roles at Netlight and now Ardoq. Known for shipping pragmatic, secure solutions quickly, he pairs a master's in computer science with deep experience in data engineering, JVM backends, and native mobile apps. Falco is also committed to driving sustainable organizational change around diversity, equity, and inclusion, bringing both technical rigor and an emphasis on responsible team culture.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at Paderborn University
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Contributions:14 reviews, 27 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Falco significantly contributed to the `next-auth` project by implementing and documenting features related to third-party API authentication. They refactored code, added examples, and fixed bugs within the example Next.js application. The user also added new OAuth provider integrations and updated existing ones, demonstrating expertise in authentication protocols and frameworks. Further improvements included modifying the example's session strategy and updating API backend URLs.
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