Sebastian Poxhofer
Senior SRE at N26 Group
St. Pölten, Lower Austria
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Poxhofer is a Senior SRE with a decade of experience building resilient, scalable platforms and currently leading SRE efforts at N26. He blends hands-on platform engineering and architecture work with open-source stewardship as a maintainer of Renovate and an OpenTelemetry contributor. His backend contributions to the popular Backstage project improved GitHub integrations by streamlining resource fetching and handling rate limits more gracefully, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience. Based in St. Pölten, Austria, he also operates as a freelance platform engineer/architect, bridging startup agility with enterprise-grade operations. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced API and rate-limiting edge cases into robust, maintainable code and for fostering observability-driven operational practices.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
typescript10
github-integration10
gitlab10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
backend10
gitlab-ci9
error-handling9
nodejs9
backstage8
experiences7
portal7
developer-tools7
developper7
gitlab-ci-runner6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 21 PRs, 64 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `GithubUrlReader` class within the `backstage` repository's backend common library. Their contributions involved streamlining the fetching of GitHub resources, including optimizing how the `fetchResponse` method is used. They also addressed rate limiting issues by incorporating the `x-ratelimit-remaining` header and implementing appropriate error handling. These changes enhance the efficiency and resilience of the system's integration with GitHub.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
secustor/renovate-operator
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
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