Sebastian Menski is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building and scaling enterprise workflow and automation platforms. He combines deep technical roots—implementing distributed algorithms, maintaining CI/CD, and contributing to core Camunda engine and Docker images—with strong people leadership, having grown and run remote-first teams up to 23 engineers. At Camunda he shipped the first SaaS Automation Platform and guided multiple product launches from R&D to GA, and now applies that delivery mindset at HubSpot. Known for clear, inclusive communication and cross-functional orchestration, he excels at turning complex technical challenges into reliable products. A regular open-source contributor and technical writer for Camunda docs, he bridges developer experience, operations, and product strategy in ways that aren’t always visible from org charts.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, 1,6, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, 1,6 at Universität Potsdam / University of Potsdam
Camunda 7 - Docker images for the Camunda BPM platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:145 commits, 12 PRs, 493 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on improving the Camunda Docker images. Their contributions include adding environment variables for database configuration, parsing database driver versions, and using the Nexus API for artifact downloads. They also implemented and improved testing for different database configurations within the Docker environment, and they updated the Tomcat version. Furthermore, they introduced a multi-stage Dockerfile for building Tomcat and Wildfly images.
Camunda 7 CE is End of Life (EoL). Please check out Camunda 8 instead (https://github.com/camunda/camunda) or read about Camunda 7 Enterprise End of Life (https://camunda.com/blog/2025/02/camunda-7-enterprise-end-of-life-extension/) – Camunda 7 CE was a flexible framework for workflow and decision automation using BPMN and DMN.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:973 commits, 8 PRs, 415 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian appears to be a back-end developer actively involved in improving the Camunda BPM platform. Their contributions primarily involve working on the REST API and adding features related to decision engine integration. The user initializes a variables map of task query dto, adds the ability to query for variable instances by names and implements a functionality to embed additional variables specified in filter properties into the HAL response.
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