Sebastian Brandt
Senior Cloud Engineer - Lead Online Platform
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Brandt is a Senior Cloud Engineer and Lead for the Online Platform at Tchibo in Hamburg with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems. He has progressed from backend and Linux systems roles into senior DevOps and cloud engineering leadership, shaping platform reliability and delivery across retail and enterprise environments. Sebastian contributes to open-source PHP tooling—improving profiling and static-analysis backends—which reflects a pragmatic focus on observability and code quality. He combines deep systems-level knowledge from roles at D2iQ and XING with commercial platform leadership at Tchibo and Datadrivers, making him comfortable both coding and running production services. Known for pragmatic improvements like robust error handling and storage-handler compatibility in community projects, he brings a detail-oriented, test-driven approach to platform engineering. Based in Hamburg, he pairs technical depth with a track record of mentoring teams and driving operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fachhochschulreife, Fachhochschulreife at Kivinan - Technisches Gymnasium
Github Skills (11)
php10
static-analysis10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
phpmd10
profiler9
file-handling9
configuration-management8
phpunit8
code-cleanup8
static-analyzer8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
phpmd/phpmd
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on modifying the `DepthOfInheritance.php` file, a component likely involved in static analysis of class inheritance depth within the PHP codebase. Their contributions involved refining the rule's logic, adding compatibility checks, and implementing exception handling to improve the robustness of the static analysis process. These changes suggest an effort to enhance the accuracy and reliability of the tool's analysis capabilities.
streamaimsmetricsuser-friendlystatic-analysis
perftools/xhgui
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Web interface for XHProf profiling data can store data in MongoDB or PDO database
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the XHGui application's backend functionality. They added checks and features related to handling different save handlers (file and MongoDB), including file caching. They also modified existing configurations and tests to align with the changes, specifically related to the file save handler and MongoDB integration. The commits also included changes to tests to ensure they functioned correctly in the project's environment.
xhprofprofilingweb-interfacephpext-pdo
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