Sebastian Spaink
Software Engineer at Apple
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Spaink is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated systems across cloud, embedded, and security domains from Bentonville, Arkansas. He has driven production improvements at companies including InfluxData—where he was a core maintainer of Telegraf and simplified releases and plugin docs—and more recently held engineering roles at Capital One, Styra, and Apple. His work spans backend systems, CI/CD automation, and developer tools (including a VS Code extension with a Go language server), and he has a track record of removing operational toil via automation. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced popular Go projects like gjson and Telegraf by adding flexible JSON querying and Windows service globbing, respectively. He pairs a practical engineering mindset with strong collaboration in community-driven projects and has presented at conferences such as GopherCon. Holding an M.S. in Computer Science, he combines deep technical delivery with an eye for developer experience and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of North Texas
English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
golang10
telegraf10
json10
json-parser10
jsonp10
windows-service10
go10
parsing10
testing10
windows9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 639 reviews, 334 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to enhancing the "Windows Services" plugin by adding functionality for glob pattern matching in configurations. They modified the plugin's code to allow for more flexible service name specifications, updated the README with the new features, and refactored the code to initialize the filter in the `Init` function. The user also made changes to the testing framework to test the new features.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
tidwall/gjson
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the development of the `gjson` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving its features. Their contributions included implementing support for array indexes and queries, enabling more flexible and powerful data extraction from JSON. They also made various code modifications and added tests to ensure the correctness of the new features and maintain the quality of the project, along with refactoring existing code.
golangjsonpathparserjson-valuesjson
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