Sebastian Pfahl
Development Manager - AI Core at SAP
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Pfahl is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years building secure, cloud-native systems and leading development teams at SAP, now directing AI Core development from Berlin. His background blends hands-on development in C/C++, Python, PHP and Node.js with deep security expertise—threat modeling, SAST/DAST automation, and security product ownership across large enterprise releases. He has led cloud innovation, release management and SRE teams, and previously headed Site Reliability Engineering at Germany’s DCSO, proving he can shift between product, ops and security priorities. Sebastian’s career began in systems and network administration for online gaming and evolved into architecting microservice deployments, CI/CD and container adoption at scale. He pairs formal studies in computer science and Japanese with a pragmatic focus on measurable security improvements, often acting as the bridge between developers, auditors and executive reporting. Colleagues know him for combining meticulous risk-based thinking with pragmatic delivery to move complex security and cloud initiatives forward.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at FernUniversität in HagenBachelor Japanische Studien, Bachelor Japanische Studien at Freie Universität BerlinFachinformatiker für Systemintegration IT, Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration IT at OSZ IMT
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (91)
python10
automation10
ansible-role10
ssh10
network-configuration10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
collectd9
redis-client9
latency9
amqp-client9
prometheus-exporter9
snmp9
daemon9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eryx12o45/grommunio-setup
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Setup script from Grommunio on Debian 11
Contributions:2 reviews, 63 commits, 23 PRs in 3 months
grommuniogromoxsetupsetup-scriptdebian
eryx12o45/php-saml
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 1 push, 5 tags in 7 months
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