Sebastian Aigner
Developer Advocate
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Aigner is a Developer Advocate for Kotlin at JetBrains with 12 years of software experience, based in Bavaria, Germany. He blends hands-on engineering and community engagement, helping developers adopt Kotlin through talks, demos, and code contributions. Before his current role he supported JetBrains as a Campus Ambassador and worked as a research assistant at TUM, where he honed both academic and practical tooling skills. His open-source work includes front-end improvements to the popular muan/emoji repo, improving search UX by handling query normalization and ensuring CoffeeScript compilation into JavaScript. Sebastian is comfortable across the stack and often ships experimental repos—“they may not all work,” he admits—reflecting a pragmatic, exploratory approach to developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Abitur / A-Levels, 1.0, Abitur / A-Levels, 1.0 at Willi-Graf-GymnasiumBachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at Technical University Munich
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
coffeescript10
searching10
emoji9
kotlin6
gradle-kotlin-dsl6
nodejs6
kotlin-js6
gradle6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
muan/emoji
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
:love_letter: Find the emoji that echoes your mind.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on improving the search functionality within the emoji repository. Their contributions include replacing spaces with underscores in the search queries, which involved modifications to both JavaScript and CoffeeScript files. They also addressed a typo that would impact the search feature's behavior. Finally, the user also ensured that the CoffeeScript code was compiled into JavaScript.
emojiemoticonsletterlove-lettermind
SebastianAigner/spasm
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
simple twitch chat frequency analysis
Contributions:4 releases, 55 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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