Sebastian Gierlinger
VP Of Engineering at Storyblok
Linz, Upper Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Gierlinger is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Storyblok after leading Developer Experience there. He combines a strong backend and DevOps pedigree—evident from multi-year contributions to the Ghost open-source publishing platform fixing image handling, RSS generation, and cache behaviors—with leadership roles including CTO and guest lecturing at FH Hagenberg. Based in Linz, Austria, he pairs an MSc in Secure Information Systems with hands-on product and team-building experience across startups and enterprise-facing products. Colleagues know him for translating tricky operational problems into durable backend fixes and for fostering developer-focused tooling and processes that scale.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Secure Information Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Secure Information Systems at Fachhochschul-Studiengang Oberösterreich
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
rss10
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
backend10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
microblogging9
rest-api9
publish9
blogpost9
api-rest9
expressjs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:518 commits, 243 PRs, 221 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sebastian contributed to the back-end functionality by fixing bugs, adding new features, and refactoring existing code. Their work included addressing image handling issues with special characters, modifying the RSS feed to exclude user information, adding cache invalidation headers for specific HTTP requests, and improving the generation of RSS content by including image and link paths. The contributions span multiple files, indicating broad interaction with the project's back-end logic.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
storyblok/.github
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
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Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
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