Sebastian Schleicher
Chief Technology Officer at Blinkist
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSebastian Schleicher is a seasoned technology leader and CTO at Blinkist with nearly two decades in software development and over a decade of hands-on experience shaping Blinkist’s mobile apps, backend services, and data analytics. He combines strategic leadership with practical delivery—planning, coordinating and realizing complex systems while fostering a culture of trust, open communication, and continuous learning across engineering teams. His background in Wirtschaftsinformatik and long track record as a consultant and freelance developer give him a pragmatic, product-focused approach to building scalable, user-centric solutions. Based in Berlin, he’s a regular speaker who enjoys sharing lessons learned from scaling Blinkist and remains accessible to peers and potential hires.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatik, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatik at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
German, English
Github Skills (46)
json-api9
activemodel8
blacklist8
email-validation7
validation7
specification6
rails6
ruby6
activerecord5
disposable5
scale5
rspec5
circuit5
aws4
ruby-on-rails4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blinkist/blinkist-config
Jan 2017 - Nov 2021
This GEM allows you to access configuration stores with different adapters.
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 11 months
configurationadapter-patternrubyadaptersconfig
blinkist/transaction_logger
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:11 PRs, 28 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
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