Sebastian Schocke
Full-Stack Chapter Lead at Redstor
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolSebastian Schocke is a pragmatic full-stack chapter lead and senior software architect with over two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in professional roles building web, mobile and backend systems. He has deep expertise in C#, PHP, TypeScript/Angular, Blazor and cross-platform mobile stacks, and a strong track record integrating databases (MSSQL/Postgres), SignalR and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Redis for high-performance, event-driven solutions. Sebastian has led teams and projects across startups and enterprise environments, shipping customer portals, IoT-style device monitoring, logistics and ERP systems while also mentoring junior developers. An active freelance engineer via Toptal and contributor to open-source (notably improving the Trakt.tv scrobbler for Kodi with retry logic, sync fixes and rating UI), he blends pragmatic architecture with hands-on coding. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he’s comfortable owning both technical vision and implementation details, often spotting reliability and sync issues others miss.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at HTS Carel de WetNational Diploma, Information Technology, National Diploma, Information Technology at Vaal University of Technology
English, Afrikaans, German
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Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
trakt/script.trakt
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
Trakt.tv movie and TV show scrobbler for Kodi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Trakt.tv scrobbler for Kodi. Their contributions involved improving the robustness of the notification service by implementing retry mechanisms, and correcting episode sync logic to ensure accurate play counts. Furthermore, the user implemented the initial functionality for ratings within the addon, creating the necessary GUI elements and integrating Trakt.tv API calls for rating episodes, movies and shows. The user also refactored the code, corrected indentation and removed unnecessary debug calls.
scrobblermovietv-showtrakt-tvvideo
ScorpioConcepts/ScorpioConcepts.Framework
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Scorpio Concepts Framework Libraries
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
csharpframeworkscorpio
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