Sebastian Galkin
Staff Engineer at Earthmover
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolSebastian Galkin is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems and data processing platforms, currently leading development of the Icechunk transactional tensor store at Earthmover. He specializes in functional programming, routinely using Clojure, Rust, and Haskell to build reliable, high-performance infrastructure and enjoys translating mathematical rigor from his physics and electrical engineering background into pragmatic system designs. Previously a principal engineer at The Climate Corporation and Zenefits, he has led architecture and implementation for large-scale data systems in production. Sebastian combines deep technical craftsmanship with a systems-thinking approach that emphasizes correctness, concurrency, and efficient resource use. Based in São Paulo, he brings an uncommon mix of research-informed problem solving and hands-on shipping of complex distributed software.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresPhysics, Physics at Instituto Balseiro
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (116)
nix10
parquet10
nixos10
linux10
chunked10
rust10
babashka10
database10
zarr10
nixpkgs10
n-dimensional10
data-generation10
faker9
immutability9
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
earth-mover/icechunk
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Open-source, cloud-native transactional tensor storage engine
Contributions:7 releases, 376 reviews, 323 PRs in 5 months
clouddatabasexarrayzarr
paraseba/test-this
Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:36 commits in 4 months
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