Sebastian Hilbig
CTO at Heise
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Hilbig is a pragmatic CTO and web development leader with 11 years of hands-on experience modernizing online media and journalism platforms from Hanover, Germany. At Heise he progressed from leading web development to chief technology officer, combining agile people leadership with deep technical oversight. He contributes to open-source tooling for search infrastructure—adding version handling and optimistic locking to the Elasticsearch Java REST client—showing attention to data integrity in distributed systems. Trained in information management and IT, he balances innovation with empathy, often prioritizing maintainable engineering and newsroom-friendly product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnologie, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnologie at Universität Hildesheim
Github Skills (12)
javas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
annotate9
annotations9
rest-api9
testing8
json7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
searchbox-io/Jest
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Elasticsearch Java Rest Client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sebastian focused on enhancing the Elasticsearch Java Rest Client, as evident from their contributions. They added a new annotation, `@JestVersion`, and implemented logic to extract and utilize the `_version` field from Elasticsearch responses. Furthermore, the user added methods for retrieving the document version and implemented an optimistic locking mechanism. These modifications improved the library's ability to handle Elasticsearch metadata and support document updates.
typesensefulltext-searchsynonymsrest-clientjava-rest
heiseonline/shariff
Nov 2014 - Nov 2016
👮 Shariff enables website users to share their favorite content without compromising their privacy.
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
privacycssjavascriptsharifffrontend
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