Sebastian Riedel
Master Software Engineer at SUSE
Greater Bremen Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Riedel is a Master Software Engineer with 21 years’ experience building robust web and Linux systems, currently leading openSUSE and SUSE release engineering efforts focused on SBOM, legal review, test automation and AI applications. A prolific open-source founder, he created the Catalyst, Mojolicious and mojo.js web frameworks and maintains hundreds of CPAN modules, bringing deep Perl and modern JavaScript/TypeScript expertise. His work spans test automation and backend engineering—contributing to projects like openQA and os-autoinst—where he improves reliability, build systems and developer tooling. Based in the Greater Bremen Area, he blends low-level Linux systems know-how with full-stack web development and a long track record of pragmatic, elegant solutions that scale.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
perl10
tester10
test-automation10
vnc9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
virtualization9
json8
code-formatting7
html6
css6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/openQA
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:488 reviews, 582 commits, 409 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on modifying the openQA backend, as evidenced by changes in Perl scripts, and the use of constants for uploads. They addressed a bug in the asset schema and added formatting rules, indicating involvement in code maintenance and improvement. Further, the user addressed bugs within the existing code and implemented optimizations for the build system.
test-automationtest-schedulingtestingscheduleropenqa
os-autoinst/os-autoinst
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
OS-level test automation
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:85 reviews, 21 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the test automation aspect of the repository. They modified existing files, including `tinycv.pm`, `consoles/VNC.pm`, and `needle.pm`, suggesting enhancements to the testing framework or test definitions. Several commits involved code style improvements, dependency updates (e.g., switching JSON libraries), and refactoring, likely to increase maintainability and efficiency of the automated tests. The user also introduced changes related to console interactions and pipe size, further indicating work focused on test execution and environment setup.
test-executiontest-automationtestingvirtualizationautomation
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