Sabine Schmaltz
Founder
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSabine Schmaltz is a founder and software leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused web products and open-source tooling, now creating Makerprism to eliminate tedious social media busywork and free creators for high-value work. A former academic with a PhD background in system-level verification, she combines rigorous formal thinking with pragmatic full-stack engineering—work she applies day-to-day in OCaml and web technologies. At Tarides she drove OCaml.org improvements, led teams, and launched the first OCaml developer conference, while running and automating OCaml’s social presence across multiple platforms. Her open-source contributions range from UX and search enhancements on ocaml.org to maintainability-focused refactors in community projects like Seamly2D. Based in Saarbrücken, she pairs hands-on coding and sysadmin experience with developer advocacy, and is unusually comfortable shipping production OCaml systems informed by research-grade correctness concerns. When not following rabbit holes in code, she builds tools that proactively reduce obvious manual work.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English, French
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
qt10
css10
user-interface10
refactor10
ocaml10
tailwindcss10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
ux-design9
xml-parsing9
user-experience9
html9
architectures8
architecture8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ocaml/ocaml.org
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
The official OCaml website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:849 reviews, 55 commits, 1108 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sabine primarily contributed to the OCaml.org website by improving the user interface and functionality of the package documentation and search features. Their commits involved styling changes to the documentation pages, particularly concerning the layout and presentation of information. They also implemented enhancements to the package search results page, including the addition of a table of contents and keyboard navigation, improving user experience.
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FashionFreedom/Seamly2D
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Open source patternmaking software to democratize fashion.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sabine refactored the code to replace `if()` statements with `switch()` statements in several functions related to parsing XML elements for point, spline, and arc creation. This change focused on improving code readability and maintainability. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of the code structure and how to modify it to create more efficient and clearer code. They also removed unnecessary return statements, further cleaning up the code.
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