Lala Sabathil is a software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend infrastructure, bot libraries, and full-stack integrations for communities and startups, currently contributing at Arcade and leading open-source work through Aiko IT Systems. She has deep expertise in Discord bot ecosystems—contributing core permission and webhook features to the widely used DSharpPlus library—and has implemented cross-platform messaging bridges like TediCross. Comfortable across DevOps, system administration, and SaaS backends, she pairs pragmatic engineering with volunteer leadership, having led distributed open-source teams and run production game and communication servers. Based in Lower Saxony, Germany, Lala brings a community-first mindset to engineering and a knack for translating messy real-world moderation and support needs into reliable, user-centered systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Business Informatics, Business Informatics at BBS I Gifhorn
IT Specialist, System Integration, IT Specialist, System Integration at Wasserverband Gifhorn
Bot which bridges Telegram chats with Discord channels
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 releases, 36 reviews, 8 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Lala primarily contributed to the project by implementing features related to bridging Telegram and Discord. They fixed message content issues through upgrading discord.js, and added functionality for handling message replies, attachments, and embeds. The commits also involve modifications to the message mapping system and settings configuration.
A .NET library for making bots using the Discord API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:111 reviews, 10 commits, 15 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Lala primarily contributes to the core functionality of the DSharpPlus library, specifically focusing on updating the Discord API's permission model. They added new permissions, including those for threads, external stickers, and activities. Additionally, the user integrated sticker audit log objects and implemented features for retrieving and modifying webhook messages. Their contributions involved modifying core enums and entities related to Discord API interactions.
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