Anton Pirker
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Pirker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vienna with 13 years of experience building Django- and Python-first web platforms and APIs. He combines deep backend expertise—shaping SDKs and integrations for the widely-used Sentry project—with a long history of architecting production Django systems and migrating clients onto the framework. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Anton has improved usability and documentation, automated tests, and added ASGI/FastAPI and Celery auto-instrumentation to Sentry’s Python tooling. He founded and ran multiple freelance ventures and a startup, proving both product intuition and hands-on implementation skills. Known for pragmatic refactors and maintainable code, he favors readable, testable systems over clever one-offs. Outside work he has a practical streak (once took a few months as a Hausmann), reflecting adaptability and a grounded approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Elektronische Datenverarbeitung und Organisation, Elektronische Datenverarbeitung und Organisation at HTL VillachDI(FH), Information management, DI(FH), Information management at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
German, English
Github Skills (25)
fastapi10
pytest10
python10
django10
flask-ask10
sdk10
starlette10
react10
flask10
documentation10
test-automation10
celery9
ux-design9
ui-design9
typescript9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-python
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Python SDK for Sentry.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:927 reviews, 234 commits, 914 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the Python SDK for Sentry.io by fixing bugs related to the Falcon integration, ensuring that only 5xx HTTP errors are captured. They added Python 3.10 support to the test suite and implemented session tracking for the ASGI integration. Further contributions included removing an unsupported Django version and refactoring tests and dependencies.
sentry-iopythonsentrysdksentry-python
getsentry/sentry-docs
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 26 commits, 318 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the documentation and UI/UX of the `sentry-docs` repository. They updated and reorganized documentation on AWS Lambda integration, added and updated icons for various AI-related platforms, and made improvements to the developer documentation sidebar. They also reorganized and improved the "Getting Started" page with card grids to enhance usability and readability of the documentation. Additionally, they worked on cleaning up Mermaid code to improve readability in dark mode.
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