Sebastian Göttschkes
Staff Engineer at Workera.ai
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolSebastian Göttschkes is a Staff Engineer based in Vienna with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently shaping infrastructure and product at Workera.ai. He blends hands-on backend craftsmanship (Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, GraphQL) with people and project leadership from prior CTO and team lead roles, having managed and mentored engineering teams through acquisitions and product transitions. His career spans startups to platform roles, with deep experience in API design, data analysis, and production orchestration. An active open-source contributor, he extended Monolog with a Pushover handler and improved extensibility in the SocketHandler, showing attention to maintainable, reusable libraries. Comfortable switching languages and paradigms—from PHP and Python to Clojure and Elixir—he brings pragmatic architecture choices grounded in operational experience.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems and Management, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems and Management at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
English, German
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Github Skills (24)
monolog10
logger10
mongodb-database10
php10
doctrine-orm10
psr-310
orm10
symfony10
logging10
mongodb10
documentation10
mysql9
checkbox9
unit-testing9
phpunit9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/mongodb-odm
Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
The Official PHP MongoDB ORM/ODM
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian focused on enhancing the documentation and mapping capabilities of the Doctrine MongoDB ODM library. They added descriptions of PHP types to mapping types, detailing the behavior of hash mappings, and providing hints on how to map arrays. Furthermore, they addressed a minor spelling mistake for clarity, and documented a method for updating multiple documents. Their work centered on clarifying the library's functionality and improving the user experience for developers.
document-mapperdatabasemapperodmdoctrine
Seldaek/monolog
Sep 2012 - Oct 2012
Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian's primary contribution focuses on extending the Monolog library with a new handler for sending logs to the Pushover service. They implemented the PushoverHandler, integrating it with the existing SocketHandler for network communication. The user modified the SocketHandler to enable port customization for subclasses, demonstrating an understanding of inheritance and extensibility. Furthermore, they refined the implementation by restructuring the `write` method and improving the data stream generation.
loggerphploggingsocketsdatabases
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