Sebastian Rodriguez is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO at foodpanda, leading engineering strategy for a platform serving millions across 21 countries. With 15+ years in software development and management, he has launched globally impactful products such as pandacare, pandago, panda ads and a unified vendor portal, scaling distributed systems and cross‑regional teams across Berlin, Singapore, Taiwan and Turkey. His background includes senior leadership at AWS and Facebook where he managed large engineering organizations focused on telemetry, cloud services and production engineering, and he holds several patents from that period. A hands‑on engineer at heart, he contributes to open-source tooling like awslimitchecker to improve cloud governance and capacity checks. Known for building high‑performing international teams, he combines product intuition with deep operational experience in performance, reliability and developer enablement. Based in Singapore, he’s passionate about turning complex technical challenges into customer value while empowering engineers to grow.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Mechanical Enegeneering, Bachelor Mechanical Enegeneering at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
NUS - TOGAF certification
Master Computer engeneering, Master Computer engeneering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Master Computer engeneering, Master Computer engeneering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
A script and python package to check your AWS service limits and usage via boto3.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the development and expansion of AWS service limit checking functionalities within the `awslimitchecker` repository. Their work involved adding support for various AWS services, including ElastiCache, RDS, EKS, and Kinesis, as well as incorporating new limits related to existing services. The contributions extended to include implementing usage checks, and IAM permissions for the newly added features within the AWS environment. This included writing tests to validate the new functionality.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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Sebastian Rodriguez - Chief Technology Officer at foodpanda