Sebastian Steenbuck
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Steenbuck is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Zurich with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems at Google, where he’s driven reliability and rollout tooling for Workspace and Drive. He blends deep SRE practice with software engineering rigor from earlier YouTube and backend roles, focusing on automation, observability, and robust deployment pipelines. A former software engineer and sysadmin, he brings hands-on expertise across Linux/Windows operations, load balancing, and platform architecture. An active open-source contributor, he has improved debugging and error handling in the well-known EvoSuite project by adding detailed logging and enhancing test execution traceability. His background in computer science (M.Sc./B.Sc.) underpins a pragmatic approach to making complex distributed systems more predictable and maintainable.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.2, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.6, Fachinformatiker, Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.2, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.6, Fachinformatiker, Informatik at Universität des Saarlandes
Universität Hamburg
German, English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
error-handling10
logging10
java10
test-automation10
junit9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EvoSuite/evosuite
May 2011 - Jun 2011
EvoSuite - automated generation of JUnit test suites for Java classes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on adding and enhancing logging messages within the EvoSuite project. Their commits introduce detailed logging statements to various Java classes, including those related to test case execution, fitness functions, coverage analysis, and JUnit test suite generation. They also made changes to the visibility of `ExecutionResult.trace` and improved error messaging within the test framework, indicating a focus on improving debugging and error handling within the test generation process. Furthermore, they adapted the equals method within the statement interface and several related classes.
junit-testtestingsuitesjavajunit
x3k6a2/typeshed
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
pythonpython3static-typesstubs
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