Michael Seibt
Staff Engineer at SEEK
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Seibt is a Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience building scalable full-stack systems and leading engineering teams through rapid growth. He blends hands-on development—contributing UI and UX improvements to notable open-source projects like Git Extensions—with architecture and operational leadership across fintech and MarTech domains. At Zeller and Reebelo he helped establish CI/CD, microservices, and reliable integrations, while at etika he designed developer-friendly PII anonymization tooling that balanced security with usability. As an engineering manager he championed testing, feature flags and proactive monitoring to substantially reduce production incidents and improve onboarding automation. Comfortable across frontend federated modules, backend microservices and cloud migrations (Lambda to ECS), he’s known for pragmatic architecture choices and shipping durable developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a technical coach who elevates team capabilities while keeping product delivery moving.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (11)
windows-forms10
uid10
git10
csharp10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
dotnet-core10
refactor9
refactoring9
hotkeys8
regular-expression8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gitextensions/gitextensions
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2434 reviews, 440 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily revolve around enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Git Extensions standalone UI tool. They implemented features like file filtering with button deletion, added tooltips and hotkeys, and improved menu options. Additionally, the user was actively involved in improving code quality through refactoring and addressing bug fixes, especially concerning user experience, showing a good understanding of the project's codebase.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
mstv/e3dc_control
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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