Sebastian Thiel
Gitoxide Core Developer at none
Bernau, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Thiel is an independent open-source software engineer and Gitoxide core developer with 16 years of experience, blending deep systems and pipeline engineering from the visual-effects industry with modern Rust-based tooling. He focuses on writing maintainable, secure, and test-driven code across the full stack, with particular strengths in workflow automation and build/devops reliability. Sebastian has contributed to high-profile Rust projects—helping improve Cargo, hyper, clap, starship and the gitoxide implementation itself—often addressing build, compatibility and performance issues. His background implementing Maya integrations and production pipeline systems gives him a pragmatic edge for shipping robust developer tools that scale in real-world production environments. Colleagues rely on him to modernize build and transport layers (HTTP/SSH/proxy) while keeping developer ergonomics and long-term maintainability front and center.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
dependency-management10
tooling10
git10
parser-combinators10
http10
build-system10
internals10
development-tools10
software-quality10
cicd10
hyper10
performance-optimization10
argument-parsing10
command-line10
version-control10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Byron/dua-cli
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 54 reviews, 421 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the development of the `dua-cli` project, focusing on both the interactive terminal interface and the underlying functionality. Their work included enhancing UI elements, updating dependencies, and improving the codebase by refactoring and adding features. They also implemented CI/CD support by adding Travis support for release builds and other tasks, showcasing a commitment to project maintainability and automation. Additionally, they contributed to performance improvements related to handling hardlinks and file size calculations.
diskspace-usedisk-spaceterminal-based
GitoxideLabs/gitoxide
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1844 releases, 746 reviews, 9469 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian contributed to the core implementation of the gitoxide pure Rust implementation of Git. Their commits primarily involved working on the index file and associated features like adding support for removing entries and correctly handling tag updates when fetching. Furthermore, they were involved in building out the HTTP transport layer, including enhancements around user agent support, proxy configuration, and handling for different protocols like SSH.
idiomaticversion-controlrustbuilt-with-rustcargo
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