Sebastian Müller
CTO at yWorks GmbH
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Müller is CTO and technical lead at yWorks, where he has architected the yFiles diagramming API and co-authored many advanced layout algorithms over two decades of leadership. Starting to code at seven, he blends deep hands-on implementation skills with strategic product stewardship, guiding commercial graph and network visualization libraries used worldwide. He actively contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving the browser SVG-to-PDF converter by fixing image rendering and adding complex path support—demonstrating attention to visual fidelity at the rendering edge. Based in Tübingen and holding a Diplom in Computer Science, he pairs academic grounding with practical system design, often tackling subtle rendering and algorithmic challenges others overlook.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen / University of TuebingenDeutschorden Gymnasium Bad Mergentheim
German, English
Github Skills (6)
pdf10
javascript10
conversions10
svg10
browser10
nodejs4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yWorks/svg2pdf.js
Dec 2015 - Aug 2022
A javascript-only SVG to PDF conversion utility that runs in the browser. Brought to you by yWorks - the diagramming experts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 15 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the visual rendering of the SVG to PDF conversion utility. Their work involved fixing issues related to the rendering of image tags by taking into account the "x" and "y" attributes, ensuring correct image positioning. Additionally, the user integrated svgpath to support complex path definitions, including arcs. This improved the utility's ability to handle a broader range of SVG elements.
jspdfbrowserpdf-conversionsvg
yWorks/yfiles-neo4j-basic-demo
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Shows how to use yFiles for HTML and Neo4j in a web based single page app to visualize database contents.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 6 months
neo4j-databasevisualizeweb-basedyfilesdatabase
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