Sebastian Herzig-patel
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Herzig-patel is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, driving digital transformation, and applying model-driven engineering and AI/ML at scale. Currently at Microsoft, he has progressed through roles from Senior Engineer to Principal and briefly led teams as a Principal Engineering Manager, blending hands-on architecture with people leadership. His background includes five years at NASA JPL and a PhD from Georgia Tech, giving him uncommon depth in systems engineering and research-driven problem solving. He is known for rapidly learning new technologies, streamlining development workflows, and mentoring engineers to raise team technical caliber. Sebastian combines aerospace-grade rigor with cloud-native practices to deliver resilient, production-ready systems. Based in Redmond, he brings a pragmatic balance of academic insight and enterprise delivery that helps turn complex requirements into impactful products.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Afrikaans, French
Github Skills (2)
optimization1
transformation1
Github contributions (5)
sherzig/SyMo
Mar 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 8 months
sherzig/jenkins-test
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year
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