Katharina Sick
Senior Developer Advocate
Asten, Upper Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolKatharina Sick is a Senior Developer Advocate with a decade of engineering experience focused on Cloud Native and Kubernetes, currently shaping developer experiences at Dynatrace. With roots in mobile and backend development, she transitioned into cloud-native systems and contributes to notable open-source work such as adding Bitbucket Server authentication to the popular Backstage developer portal. She blends technical depth—having progressed from Android and Java roles to senior engineering—with human-centered design training (M.Sc.) to make tooling more usable for developers. Based in Upper Austria, she actively organizes local Cloud Native events and brings community-driven insight to developer advocacy. Outside of work she channels curiosity and teamwork into sports, travel, and competitive quizzes, reflecting a hands-on, playful approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplo Grafik- & Webdesign, Diplo Grafik- & Webdesign at AFFS - Akademie für angewandte FernstudienMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Human-Centered Computing, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Human-Centered Computing at Hagenberg Campus - FH Upper AustriaMatura, Matura at BRG Landwiedstraße
German, English
Github Skills (12)
authentication10
user-authentication10
backstage10
bitbucket-server10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript8
testing8
react8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 3 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Katharina contributed to the authentication backend of the Backstage project, focusing on adding an authentication provider for Bitbucket Server. They implemented tests for the Bitbucket Server authentication provider and integrated the provider within the existing authentication system. This involved modifications to the `provider.ts` and `provider.test.ts` files, showcasing their understanding of authentication flows. The changes also included fixing API report errors and regenerating the reports.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
KatharinaSick/minecraft-plugin-guide
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
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