Pascal Sthamer
Cyber Security Consultant at PROCYDE GmbH
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolPascal Sthamer is a Cyber Security Consultant and entrepreneur based in Cologne with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating server infrastructure, automation, and web platforms. He studied Technical Computer Science at TH Köln with a focus on networks and distributed systems and implemented a simulated end-to-end 5G network for his bachelor’s thesis, integrated into Kubernetes test infrastructure. As founder of IPS-Hosting and Einfach-Gaming he combines product-minded engineering—daemon and shop system development, Ansible-driven automation—and customer-facing operations in a Frankfurt data center. Pascal is an active open-source maintainer and TypeScript contributor, having improved typings in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repository, which complements his full-stack background from canvas editors to messaging platforms. He brings a pragmatic security-first approach shaped by both consultancy work at PROCYDE and years of running production game-server services.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Technische Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Technische Informatik at TH Köln
German, English
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily contributed to the TypeScript type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. Their work involved updating and adding type definitions for various libraries, including `dockerode`, `algoliasearch`, and `ts3-nodejs-library`. These updates included fixing errors, adding missing properties, and enhancing existing types. The user also introduced new options, and features related to the typings.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
IPS-Hosting/pino-sentry-stream
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
A pino stream to automatically pass errors to Sentry.
Contributions:24 PRs, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years
sentrynodejspinostreamtypescript
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