Gregor Weckbecker
Selbständiger Softwareentwickler at Freiberuflich
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Weckbecker is a seasoned freelance software developer with 17 years of experience building web applications and services in the media domain from the Cologne/Bonn region. He has held senior technical roles including Principal Architect & Head of Engineering at Snabble and senior developer positions at Qvest Digital and CODEVISE, blending hands-on backend engineering with architectural leadership. His open-source contributions include enhancing a JWT login microservice to improve user claims handling and security practices, such as switching to crypto/rand for secret generation. Trained in mathematics and computer science at the University of Bonn, he combines rigorous technical foundations with pragmatic, production-oriented design. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who brings clarity to complex integration and identity challenges across distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Mathematik und Informatik, Diplom, Mathematik und Informatik at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Github Skills (14)
golang10
go10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
oauth10
jwt10
caddy9
log-in9
login-page9
service-provider8
github8
service-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qvest-digital/loginsrv
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
JWT login microservice with plugable backends such as OAuth2, Google, Github, htpasswd, osiam, ..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 23 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Gregor focused on enhancing the user claims functionality within the login service. They introduced a user claims provider, enabling the retrieval of additional user information. Further contributions include integrating user information into claims provided by an endpoint and modifying the system to return empty claims for not found responses. They also refactored code to enhance security by implementing the use of `crypto/rand` for generating secret keys.
google-oauth2authorizationhtpasswdplugableauthentication
snabble/docs
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
The snabble platform documentation.
Contributions:4 reviews, 100 commits, 75 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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