Sebastian Zarnekow
Consultant, Language Engineer, And Coach at Eclipse
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Zarnekow is a Berlin-based language engineer and consultant with 15 years of experience designing DSLs, developer tooling, and team practices. As an Xtext committer and long-time contributor to the Eclipse ecosystem, he brings deep expertise in language engineering and model-driven development to commercial and open-source projects. He has blended hands-on architecture and engineering leadership—from senior architect roles at itemis to directing engineering at a startup—and now consults and coaches teams to scale their language and tooling capabilities. Sebastian regularly runs workshops and helps grow engineering teams, translating complex domain requirements into usable, maintainable language solutions. His background in information technology and business economics gives him a practical, product-focused perspective that balances technical rigor with real-world constraints. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic guidance on DSL design, build pipelines, and developer experience improvements that accelerate adoption.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH), Information Technology and Business Economics, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH), Information Technology and Business Economics at Fachhochschule Nordakademie Elmshorn
German, English
Stackoverflow
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grammar
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java
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eclipse
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antlr
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parsing
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Github Skills (142)
immutable-collections10
maven-plugin10
language-server-protocol10
intellij-idea10
relation10
theia10
maven10
refactoring10
eclipse10
rcp10
scanner10
jetbrains10
bitset10
xtext10
intellij-plugin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-xtext/xtext
Aug 2010 - Nov 2022
Eclipse Xtext™ is a language development framework
Contributions:292 reviews, 4154 commits, 526 PRs in 12 years 4 months
xtexttheiadevelopment-frameworkeclipselanguage-server-protocol
xtext/org.xtext.antlr.generator
Oct 2010 - Aug 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 2 years 10 months
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