Jan Auer
Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Sieghartskirchen, Lower Austria
Summary
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RockstarJan Auer is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on backend systems, Rust development, and developer tooling, currently at Sentry. He has deep hands-on expertise in binary parsing, serialization, crash/reporting pipelines and CI/CD—contributing notable work to high-profile open-source projects like serde and multiple Sentry repos (sentry-rust, sentry-cli, sentry-native). As a former founder and early-stage product contributor, he blends product sense with engineering rigor, improving transports, DIF handling, and release automation. Based in Lower Austria, he pairs low-level systems knowledge (ELF/PE handling, ARM constants) with practical full-stack documentation and testing contributions, making him comfortable across code, builds, and observability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (68)
raven10
sentry10
python10
testing10
deserialization10
derivation10
proc-macro10
pe-file10
elf10
backend10
monitoring10
javascript10
data-serialization10
binarydiff10
sdk10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-rust
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
Official Sentry SDK for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 72 reviews, 143 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan implemented core features for the Sentry Rust SDK, including the transport and client components. They introduced a basic HTTP transport, along with the client for sending events to the Sentry service. Additionally, the user added support for address parsing in the protocol. The user's work involved changes across multiple files, focusing on core library components.
sentryrustsentry-sdkravensdk
getsentry/sentry-cli
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
A command line utility to work with Sentry.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 17 reviews, 269 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the sentry-cli's core functionality by addressing issues related to debug information file (DIF) handling, including support for chunked uploads, the inclusion of ELF files, and PDB/PE file processing. They implemented significant enhancements to the DIF upload process, by adding features like processing chunks, and supporting multiple compression algorithms. Additionally, the user worked on build and CI/CD improvements, incorporating GitHub Actions and improving the build process and artifact upload.
sentryrustcommand-line-utilitysentry-clicrash-reporting
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