Sebastian Blessing
Managing Director at Pony Programming Language - Open Source Project
Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Blessing is an experienced software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years in development and management, currently serving as Managing Director of ABS-Analyse Beratung Software GmbH and founder/CTO of Digital Frontier GmbH. He combines hands-on systems architecture—evidenced by core contributions to the Pony programming language’s build system and runtime linking across Linux and Windows—with strategic leadership in digital transformation and agile delivery. His background spans enterprise engineering at SAP and IBM, startup founding and board-level direction, and long-term open-source commitment to a high-performance actor-model language. Sebastian is completing advanced studies at Imperial College London, blending rigorous academic research with practical product and platform execution. Known for improving debuggability and cross-platform builds in low-level tooling, he brings uncommon depth in language runtime and build-system engineering to executive technology strategy.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Imperial College LondonBachelor's Degree IT-Systems-Engineering, Bachelor's Degree IT-Systems-Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
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Github Skills (11)
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Github contributions (5)
ponylang/ponyc
Jul 2014 - Apr 2020
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:685 commits, 4 PRs, 120 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian's commits primarily involve modifications to the build system and the core language constructs of the Pony programming language. They contributed to building and linking the pony runtime, by working on the build scripts and correcting errors that arose during the build and linking process for several platforms, including Linux and Windows. The user also worked on integrating Dwarf debug symbols into the code for better debugging support.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
sblessing/pony-savina
Apr 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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