Damian Schenkelman

VP of Engineering

Argentina18 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Led significant engineering growth at Auth0.
Pioneered incident management practices improving uptime.
Developed cutting-edge identity solutions in web3.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with extensive experience in identity management and systems architecture.

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C#ASP.NET MVC.NETSilverlightVisual StudioWPFWindows AzureDesign PatternsScrumAgile MethodologiesTest Driven DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentJSONASP.NETWeb Services

Experience

18 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Auth0 by okta

6 roles

VP R&D - Auth0Lab

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Principal Architect - Office of the CTO

Feb 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Principal Engineer - Office of the CTO

Sep 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Working on research and creating proof of concepts for forward looking products.
Current focus is "project Sandcastle", a Fine Grained Authorization as a Service implementation:
https://twitter.com/auth0lab
https://learn.sandcastle.cloud/
https://zanzibar.academy
based on Google Zanzibar: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190.
Also researching Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials.

Principal Engineer - Systems Architecture

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Working on Auth0's Systems Architecture group, focusing on making our architecture reliable and scalable.

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Led the IAM (Auth and Management APIs, MFA, SDKs) and Platform Engineering teams (Network, Storage, Observability, CI/CD, Dev Tooling, Services, SRE).
Helped Auth0 Engineering grow from ~20 people to > 100. Designed and published Auth0's Engineering hiring process (https://auth0.com/blog/how-we-hire-engineers/). Trained managers and engineers on it. Created interview templates and take home exercises.
Mentored and sponsored managers and senior individual contributors to help them grow. Created Auth0's first Individual Contributor Engineering ladder.
Introduced RFCs as a remote collaboration tool for tech decisions across Auth0.
Introduced SRE as a practice and team. Helped design a feature flags service and introduce the concept across the organization. Led initiatives to get deployment failures from 26% to < 1% and deployment time from > 4 hours to < 10 minutes.
Helped Auth0 meet > 99.99% uptime and < 500 ms 99th perc latency SLAs.
Drove Incident Management as a practice and post-mortem writing, fostering a blameless, learning culture. Incident command of large/complex incidents.
Introduced and coordinated Auth0's Design and Architecture workgroup, which provides Engineering wide guidance on technical matters.
Participated in calls with strategic customers as part of the sales process.

Senior Engineer

May 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

Worked on a number of features and services using mostly node.js, MongoDB & AWS.
Led the design and development of Auth0's Management API (https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2). Helped scale Auth0 from <10 login tx/sec to 3.4k tx/sec. Co-designed and implemented multi-region DR failover for Auth0, including cross region replication for MongoDB.
Implemented features in Auth0's Authentication API, worked on e-mail delivery improvements, implemented Auth0's bulk user import functionality. Collaborated in the implementation and design of Auth0's rate limiting services.
Led the team and design of Auth0's MFA feature (https://auth0.com/docs/multifactor-authentication): the mobile app and APIs.

Okta

2 roles

VP R&D - Auth0Lab

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Lead the Auth0Lab team. Working on
AI + identity (user + agent auth, 3rd party APIs, authz with RAG and more...) https://auth0.ai/
Dev & partner portal as a service https://www.auth0.ai/dev-portal
App UI components https://components.lab.auth0.com/docs
Simplifying SaaS building on top of Auth0

Principal Architect

Feb 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Researching the intersection of identity and web3 (Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identity, Sign-in with Ethereum, NFTs, Zero Knowledge Proofs, etc.)

Plato

Mentor

Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Mentoring senior engineers from various companies on career advice & development, problem-solving, leadership and other topics.

Microsoft

SDE Intern - SQL Azure

Jan 2014 – Mar 2014 · 2 mos · Redmond, WA

Worked with deployment automation telemetry. Used Apache Hadoop, Apache Pig and Apache Oozie to create and schedule a variety of jobs to process data.

Southworks

2 roles

Development Lead

Jan 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelism
Worked on site in Redmond and San Francisco as part of the team that created demos for the //BUILD 2013 Day 2 Keynote. Also part of the team that created the demos showcased during the //BUILD 2012 Day 2 Keynote (working remotely).
Microsoft Academy
Migrated a Silverlight plug-in that allows users to watch videos streamed via Multicast to a Windows Runtime Component.
Microsoft Accessibility Solutions (UK)
Worked on a Windows 8 C# + XAML app that allows customization of video captions.
Microsoft Media & Advertising
Produced various Azure Media Services based tools, which were used during the London 2012 Olympics. The tools included a web health dashboard that reported on encoder and channel health, and a web replicator dashboard that was used to provide redundancy by automatically replicating content.

Developer

Mar 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Microsoft Media & Advertising
One of the main developers of the Microsoft Media Platform Video Editor (previously Rough Cut Editor or RCE) 2.0 (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/VideoEditor).
Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelism
Worked in the development of training kits, which include demos, presentations and Hands-on Labs. Some of the technologies used for those training kits were ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch, and Windows Azure.
Microsoft patterns & practices
Worked on the update of the following patterns & practices factories to Visual Studio 2010:
Smart Client Software Factory 2010 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff709809.aspx)
Web Client Software Factory 2010 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648752.aspx)
Updated the Microsoft Word DocTools. The DocTools are a Microsoft Word plug-in, which can be used to write technical content that can later be transformed into HTML format. The DocTools source makes heavy use of VSTO, XSL, WordXML, and XPath.
Part of the Sustained Engineering team. Working in (among other things):
Community Support at Codeplex forums
Demo Applications
Documentation
Fixing bugs and solving issues
Testing (Automated, Unit, Manual)