Michi Hoffmann
Staff Software Engineer at Sentry
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMichi Hoffmann is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vienna with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing SDKs. At Sentry he has driven dynamic sampling, tracing, and profiling improvements across multiple language SDKs (PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Go), reflecting deep expertise in observability and cross-language integrations. He has a strong background in cloud and DevOps from leadership roles at magicplan, which complements his hands-on work shipping SDK features and refactors. Michi is also an active contributor to CakePHP documentation and core, showing attention to developer experience and clarity beyond code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture changes that reduce technical debt while improving telemetry and error handling. He combines engineering leadership with meticulous open-source contributions to widely used projects like Sentry’s official SDKs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Städt. Berufsschule für Informationstechnik und Fachinformatik Systemintegration
Github Skills (39)
mvc-framework10
error-logging10
cakephp10
middleware10
sentry10
restructuredtext10
tracer10
python10
validations10
laravel-mix10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rs10
validation10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-php
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The official PHP SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:193 reviews, 63 commits, 396 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michi's contributions primarily focused on improving the Sentry PHP SDK's functionality and code quality. They made several changes including dropping dependencies, adding exception type setters, and implementing correct handling of numeric HTTP headers. They also worked on refactoring aspects related to UUID generation, error handling, and integrating dynamic sampling features, demonstrating a strong understanding of the SDK's architecture. The user also worked on tests, and improvements to the tracing library.
sentry-iosentryerror-monitoringphpsdk
getsentry/sentry-go
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Go SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:268 reviews, 52 commits, 248 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michi primarily focused on enhancing the Sentry Go SDK. They extended the `User` struct by adding fields, indicating a focus on user data handling. The user also addressed code style with `go fmt` and added functionality to send Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Further contributions include refactoring sampling methods and adding DSN getters. They also worked on implementing methods for data setting within the spans.
golangsentry-iosentryerror-monitoringsdk
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