Sebastian Brückner
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Katavi Region, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Brückner is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building products at Palantir Technologies after early internships at Palantir and Uber. He combines front-end craftsmanship in React UI toolkits with back-end expertise in migration and API edge cases, evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Palantir’s Blueprint and Gitea. His work on accessibility and component robustness (e.g., OverflowList, Breadcrumbs, AnchorButton) complements deep experience handling complex data migrations from GitLab, including nuanced comment and branch-change scenarios. Trained at the Hasso Plattner Institute in IT-Systems Engineering (B.Sc. and M.Sc.), he pairs strong academic grounding with practical production experience. Based in the Katavi Region (United States), he brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to both UX polish and backend correctness. Notably, he balances user-facing refinements with backend reliability—an engineer who thinks across the full stack to ensure accurate, accessible tooling.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering, 1.2, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering, 1.2 at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
Github Skills (24)
apim10
git10
javascript10
gitlab-api10
back-end-development10
ui-components10
typescript10
gitlab10
gitea10
component-kit10
go10
api10
typescript-types10
golang10
typescripts10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 23 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the React-based UI toolkit, focusing on component-level improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues within existing components, like `AnchorButton` and `Select`, ensuring proper functionality and responsiveness. Additionally, the user worked on enhancing the `OverflowList` component by adding features and refining its behavior to meet specified requirements. They also integrated new features like the `Breadcrumbs` component and adding accessibility features in existing UI components.
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go-gitea/gitea
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributes to the Gitea project by working on migration logic, specifically focusing on importing data from GitLab. Their work involves adapting Gitea's code to handle edge cases and differences in GitLab's API responses, such as those related to merge requests and comments. They implemented solutions to correctly migrate automatic merge GitLab comments and target branch changes. The user also demonstrates expertise in handling different types of data events to ensure accurate migration of information.
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