Claas Störtenbecker is a Berlin-based software engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, full-stack distributed systems. He combines hands-on backend and SRE/DevOps experience from roles at XCNT, Data4Life, collectAI and early-stage AI startups to deliver reliable, production-grade services. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on observability, graceful shutdowns and robust API interactions—evidenced by contributions improving context cancellation and shutdown behavior to the popular slacker Slack bot framework. A TU Berlin computer science graduate, he blends academic grounding with practical engineering discipline and a penchant for pragmatic problem-solving. Colleagues value him for shipping resilient systems and bridging development and operations in fast-moving teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A-Grade, A-Grade at Robert-Stock-Gymnasium Hagenow
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Contributions summary:Claas primarily focused on enhancing the `slacker` Slack bot framework. Their contributions include adding support for graceful shutdowns using context, improving the overall robustness of the application by handling context cancellation properly. They also updated example code to ensure proper bot functionality and implemented necessary changes to streamline the interaction with the Slack API.
Phi is a (client/server) double entry book keeping application.
Contributions:8 commits, 30 PRs, 265 pushes in 14 days
golangaccountingkeepingclient-servergrpc
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