Sebastian Schmidt
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Schmidt is an Australian software engineer with 12 years of practical experience and a strong interest in information security and open-source software. Born in Germany and now based on the Gold Coast, he blends a love of the internet with hands-on work across back-end, DevOps, and mobile platforms. His notable open-source contributions include improving the SynoCommunity spksrc cross-compilation framework—adding support for new Synology architectures and modernizing builds for DSM 7—and fixing stability and UI issues in the macOS client for µTox. Sebastian gravitates toward tooling and workflows (he frequently touts Git) and enjoys solving build, dependency, and CI integration problems that make software reproducible and portable. A Griffith University graduate in IT and Multimedia, he brings both academic grounding and a practical, community-minded approach to projects. He’s the sort of engineer who cares as much about a smooth developer experience as about shipping secure, reliable features.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Information Technology and Multimedia, Bachelor of Information Technology and Multimedia at Griffith UniversityBishop Druitt College
Github Skills (33)
event-handling10
back-end-development10
crossbuild10
scripting10
laravel-mix10
event-manager10
c1110
laravel10
makefile10
cocoa10
c1710
eventbus10
php10
script10
build-automation10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
SynoCommunity/spksrc
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Cross compilation framework to create native packages for the Synology's NAS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:311 reviews, 116 commits, 184 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the cross-compilation framework, spksrc, for building native packages for Synology NAS devices. Their work included adding support for new hardware architectures (ipq806x, northstarplus), improving the build process, and adapting the build system for DSM 7. They also addressed issues related to dependency management, including fixing cache issues, and improved the integration of the project with GitHub Actions.
synologycompilationcdrnascross-compilation
uTox/uTox
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
µTox the lightest and fluffiest Tox client
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 14 PRs, 40 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the macOS client of the µTox application, focusing on bug fixes and feature implementations specific to the platform. The user resolved crashes, addressed font rendering issues, and implemented file sending functionality. Their work involved modifying the user interface and interactions, particularly within the Cocoa framework.
securelightestosxlightwindows
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