Sascha Ivan
Full-stack Developer at Interflex Datensysteme GmbH
Bad Dürrheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
🤩
RockstarSascha Ivan is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining system-level software and web applications from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. At Interflex Datensysteme he progressed from intern and working student to full-time developer, delivering production-ready features across the stack. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent media-oriented projects like CoreELEC, LibreELEC and Tvheadend, where his work spans build systems, dependency maintenance, security updates and DVB-S EN50494 support. That background gives him uncommon expertise bridging embedded build engineering, backend systems and application-level configuration. He focuses on robustness and repeatable builds—introducing toolchain improvements, hardening flags and dependency upgrades to reduce security and deployment risk. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who turns low-level build and compatibility challenges into reliable releases.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
dvb10
dvb-t10
linux10
build-system10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
sys10
openssl10
toolchain10
management10
embedded10
api-design9
gnu-make9
apim9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv
May 2018 - Dec 2019
Just enough OS for KODI
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sascha primarily focused on updating and maintaining the underlying software dependencies of the LibreELEC operating system. Their contributions included updating OpenSSL to address security vulnerabilities, fixing build issues with rtmpdump, and upgrading various packages like bzip2, mesonbuild, and glib. The user also addressed missing dependencies and made minor configuration adjustments to facilitate builds and ensure compatibility with newer software versions.
linuxvaapijeoslibreelecembedded
CoreELEC/CoreELEC
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
A lightweight OS for KODI
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sascha's commits primarily focus on build system modifications and dependencies within the CoreELEC project. The user implemented changes related to the toolchain, replacing `PKG_AUTORECONF`, setting `PKG_TOOLCHAIN`, and renaming `TOOLCHAIN`. They also introduced build flags, including PIC, build parallel control, and hardening options. Further contributions involve switching from MySQL to MariaDB and resolving build issues for the WeTek_Core/Play devices, suggesting involvement with build configuration and system-level aspects.
linuxkodi
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.