Otto Sichert
Founder at AB UND ZU
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolOtto Sichert is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer tooling from startup to enterprise. He combines hands-on skills across React, TypeScript, Python/Django and cloud-native systems with leadership roles at Klarna, AWS RDS and Spotify, where he shaped platform reliability, startup-time performance and developer experience. As an open-source contributor he worked on Backstage’s TechDocs and core integrations, helping improve documentation workflows for developer portals. Otto runs AB UND ZU, a consultancy focused on resolving architectural bottlenecks and implementing long-term, scalable visions for engineering teams. He prefers short iteration cycles and close stakeholder communication, a practice informed by on-site process inspections in manufacturing settings like Northvolt. Outside engineering he brings creative energy from organizing DJ programs and studio builds, a thread that surfaces in his collaborative, user-centered approach.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Business Computer Science, Business Computer Science at University of CologneComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Koblenz and Landau
German, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
backstage10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
microservices7
microservices-application7
django-models6
cnc6
orm6
soundcloud6
react-native6
python6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 42 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Otto primarily contributed to the Backstage project by modifying and refactoring code related to the TechDocs plugin and its integration with the Backstage application. Their work involved moving components, refactoring code, and updating dependencies within the TechDocs ecosystem. They also made changes to the core application files and documentation. Further contributions were focused on correcting Zip file handling and testing for it.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
ottosichert/alexa-soundcloud
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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