Rüdiger Sonderfeld
Staff SRE-SWE (L6) at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRüdiger Sonderfeld is a Staff SRE-SWE and Tech Lead at Google London with 20 years of engineering experience, currently shaping Cloud Networking services including Cloud VPN, Cloud Router, Cloud NAT and Cloud Interconnect. Trained as an electrical engineer with an MSc in Micro/Nanoelectronics from TU Vienna, he brings hardware-aware systems thinking to large-scale cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering. At Google he has progressed through SRE ranks to lead hybrid connectivity reliability and software efforts, balancing on-call resilience with long-term architectural improvements. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced developer ergonomics in widely used Emacs projects like Magit and El-Get, adding UI polish and practical features that reflect his focus on tooling and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate low-level protocol and systems nuances into operable, production-grade services.
20 years of coding experience
Vienna University of Technology
English, German
Github Skills (20)
git10
strings10
qt10
package-management10
text-manipulation10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
magit10
emacs-lisp10
regular-expression10
emacs10
elisp10
irc10
c-language9
inotify9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dimitri/el-get
Jun 2011 - Dec 2021
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rüdiger primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and user interface of an Emacs package manager, El-Get. Their work involved implementing new features such as clickable links and buttons within the package descriptions. They also refactored and improved the package description functionality, adding website, description, dependency, and Emacs version information. The user's efforts focused on improving the user experience and information available for packages within El-Get.
elispspacemacsmagitemacsbits
magit/magit
Feb 2011 - Nov 2014
It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rüdiger primarily contributed to the `magit/magit` Emacs package by adding and improving features related to the user interface and functionality. Their commits include adding menu options, implementing functionalities such as automatically refreshing the status buffer with inotify, and integrating features like username and password prompts for Git operations. The user also improved code quality and user experience through bug fixes and minor prompt adjustments.
porcelainmagitemacsgit-porcelainemacs-lisp
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