Sebastian Heid
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Heid is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in backend and DevOps work for cloud and enterprise systems, currently at Microsoft in Mannheim. He spent much of his career at SAP contributing to the backend of “SAP for Me” and as a core contributor to Cloud Foundry BOSH and its OpenStack CPI, adding configuration-diffing endpoints, safe deletion by ID, and security-minded CLI improvements. Comfortable working across production tooling and developer-facing CLI features, he focuses on reliable lifecycle management for distributed services and has a track record of fixing subtle resurrection and credential-redaction bugs. With an academic background in Mathematical Economics (MSc) and hands-on experience from internships through thesis work, he brings analytical rigor to engineering problems and an eye for both correctness and operational safety.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-level (Abitur), A-level (Abitur) at Max-Born-GymnasiumMaster of Science (MSc), Mathematical Economics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Economics at University of Mannheim
English, French, German
Github Skills (19)
bosh10
api-rest10
cloud-foundry10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
rspec10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
go-testing10
ruby10
go10
command-line10
rest-api10
devops10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
BOSH CLI v2+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the `bosh-cli` project by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. They added the ability to delete configurations by ID and updated existing code to align with go vet standards. Furthermore, they made changes to include deployment information in the output of bosh instances and redacted credentials in error messages related to release uploads and downloads. Their work involved modifying core CLI commands and supporting infrastructure components.
cli
cloudfoundry/bosh
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily worked on enhancing the BOSH director's configuration management features, focusing on adding endpoints for diffing and retrieving configurations. Their contributions include implementing code for comparing configuration versions and adding functionality to retrieve a specific configuration by its ID. They also addressed and fixed bugs related to showing, deleting, and preventing the resurrection of already deleted configurations.
cloud-foundry
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