Sebastian Lange
Site Reliability & Data Engineer
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSebastian Lange is a Site Reliability and Data Engineer based in Oxford with eight years of experience building resilient, data-driven software for research and public good. He has transitioned from digital humanities and research software at institutions like The Bodleian Libraries and the University of Edinburgh to production-focused SRE work at Citizens Advice, blending academic rigor with operational reliability. His background includes full-stack development in Ruby, PHP/Laravel and cloud-ready tooling, applied to digital preservation and scholarly infrastructures. Sebastian often works at the intersection of software engineering and research workflows, turning archival and research requirements into maintainable systems. He is motivated by creating software with positive societal impact and brings a rare combination of humanities-informed domain knowledge and practical DevOps experience. An early career focus on science communication and CRIS/EOSC initiatives means he’s practiced at translating technical complexities for diverse stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Digital Humanities, Master's degree, Digital Humanities at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
English, German, French
Github Skills (43)
digital-preservation10
deploying9
collections9
ansible-role8
tiddlywiki8
solr8
extjs7
blacklight7
discovery7
gherkin6
azerothcore6
tei6
ansible6
lucene6
ruby6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Slange-Mhath/Microservice-Log-Merger
Jul 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
Slange-Mhath/archivematica
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Free and open-source digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 17 branches in 6 months
long-termdigital-preservationstandardslongdigital-objects
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