Kenneth Falck
CEO at Talentum Media
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolKenneth Falck is a seasoned cloud architect and CEO with 16 years of experience designing scalable AWS Serverless and cloud-native systems from Espoo, Finland. He combines hands-on engineering — including notable contributions to the popular Serverless Framework around API Gateway authorizers, Authorization header handling and AWS role/MFA support — with entrepreneurial leadership as co-owner of Clouden and co-founder of a blockchain consultancy. Kenneth has led R&D and product efforts at media and cloud firms, bridging IoT, Web3 and serverless architectures to create production-ready, secure solutions. He also advises consumer-facing startups in fashion tech and writes regularly on technical and R&D topics, demonstrating a talent for explaining complex ideas. Outside pure engineering he co-owns classic Helsinki restaurants, showing an appetite for operational diversity and real-world product delivery. Trained as a computer scientist at Teknillinen korkeakoulu, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with long-term strategic leadership.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
tekn.yo, CS, tekn.yo, CS at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
api-gateway10
serverless10
cloud-services10
back-end-development9
devops9
location9
redirect9
authentication8
user-authentication8
configuration-management8
aws-sdk8
sequelizejs6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 102 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the Serverless Framework's functionality, focusing on API Gateway integration and deployment. They implemented support for custom authorizers, specifically the `authorizerId` parameter and also made changes to use the header `Authorization` in API requests. In addition to these, they added AWS config file support, enabling the framework to assume roles and handle multi-factor authentication (MFA). These contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the framework's capabilities related to security and deployment, improving user experience when assuming roles.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
cloudeninc/clouden-cdk-aws-lambda-typescript
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
TypeScript Build Step for AWS CDK Lambda
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
typescript-buildserverlessaws-lambdaawscdk
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