Khaled Garbaya
Senior Engineering Manager at Staffbase
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKhaled Garbaya is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 13 years of experience leading teams and shipping developer-facing products across web and game domains. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering—particularly around Contentful integrations, Gatsby, and rich-text tooling—with people leadership, talent development, and operational rigor. His open-source contributions to widely used projects like contentful.js and Gatsby show a focus on robust SDKs, migration tooling, and CMS-driven data pipelines that improve developer experience. Previously a game and cross-platform engine developer, he brings a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to building scalable systems and empowering teams. Known for turning tricky integration edge cases into reliable features, he combines technical depth with an educator’s knack for mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Faculté de science Gafsa Tunisie
Arabic, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
1,489reputation
112kreached
63answers
11questions
graphql
top-5%
gatsby
top-5%
Github Skills (36)
markdown10
apim10
javascript10
lib10
expressjs10
static-site-generator10
testing10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
contentful10
api10
sdk10
markdown-it10
typescript-types10
command-line10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/the-example-app.nodejs
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Example app for Contentful in node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 49 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Khaled's contributions primarily focused on adding new features and improving the functionality of the Contentful example app. They implemented a generic error handler and integrated it into the routes. The user added a course list view and incorporated breadcrumb navigation to enhance user navigation. Additionally, they refactored the routes and updated the landing page to reflect the changes.
contentfulherokunode-jsexpressdocker
contentful/contentful-migration
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
🚚 Migration tooling for contentful
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 66 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Khaled primarily contributed to the Contentful migration tooling by fixing bugs and adding new features. Their work involved modifying the command-line interface (CLI), updating the offline API, and adjusting editor interface versions. They also implemented improvements to the library usage and corrected end-to-end tests.
contentfulmigrationtooling
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