Francesco Gringl-novy
Engineering Manager at Sentry
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolFrancesco Gringl-novy is an experienced engineering manager based in Vienna with 12 years of software engineering and leadership experience, currently leading Sentry’s JavaScript SDK team. He blends hands-on full‑stack expertise—from Ember and React front-ends to Node and OpenTelemetry tracing—with product-minded leadership, having previously served as CTO at Fabscale where he led a cross-functional team building industrial SaaS. Francesco is an active open-source contributor on prominent projects including getsentry/sentry and embroider, where his work spans SDK loaders, build tooling, accessibility fixes, and performance-focused tracing improvements. He’s comfortable shipping across the stack, optimizing developer experience and CI/CD, and brings a practical focus on observability and compatibility that few managers retain at the code level. He also teaches and writes technical content, reflecting a knack for distilling complex engineering topics for broader audiences.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Digital Mediatechnology, Master of Science (MSc) Digital Mediatechnology at FH Sankt Pölten
German, English, Portuguese, French, English
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Github Skills (56)
error-reporting10
react-components10
javascript10
tracer10
testing10
css10
typescript10
test-framework10
react-component10
webpack10
emberjs10
component-kit10
sdk10
front-end-development10
webapi10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-javascript
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Official Sentry SDKs for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2864 reviews, 181 commits, 2582 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Francesco contributed to the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for the Sentry JavaScript SDK, focusing on performance tracing and monitoring. Their work included implementing support for `forceTransaction` within OpenTelemetry's Node.js package, ensuring the accurate creation and tracking of spans, and establishing accurate parent-child relationships. Furthermore, the user refactored code to incorporate the new tracing API, adding a system to identify whether a span has a remote parent and adjust the behavior of trace propagation based on it, as well as adding support for attaching the `response` context to `http.server` spans. The user's contributions involved modifying various files related to instrumentation, trace handling, and span creation.
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getsentry/sentry-docs
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:462 reviews, 5 commits, 285 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco focused on improving the documentation website's user interface and functionality. Their work included implementing new features, such as an organization token selector, and refactoring existing components. They also addressed bugs, updated styles, and improved the overall user experience by modifying the rendering of elements and integrating new JavaScript features. The user contributed to improving the site's performance and updated documentation related to JavaScript integrations and SDK options.
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