Pascal Seitz
Software Engineer at quickwit-oss
Taiwan
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RockstarPascal Seitz is a software engineer based in Taiwan with 11 years of experience building backend systems and DevOps tooling. He contributes to notable open-source search projects—creator of lz4_flex and a developer on tantivy—and has driven improvements to Quickwit’s CLI and test infrastructure for a cloud-native observability search engine. Pascal focuses on making codebases more testable and maintainable, often refactoring CLI integrations into core libraries and enhancing test environments like LocalStack. His work blends systems-level performance sensibilities with practical DevOps experience, enabling reliable, production-ready search tooling.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
quickwit-oss/quickwit
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:408 reviews, 131 commits, 436 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pascal's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Quickwit CLI and its integration with the core search engine. This includes refactoring the CLI code for improved testability, moving code to a more manageable structure, and integrating the command-line interface with the main library. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the test setup, including the configuration for LocalStack and changes in the test framework. This suggests involvement in both back-end development and aspects of the DevOps process.
analyticsrustlog-analyticslog-managementlogging
PSeitz/lz4_flex
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Fastest pure Rust implementation of LZ4 compression/decompression.
Contributions:2 releases, 88 reviews, 256 commits in 2 years 7 months
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