Stefanie Plieschnegger
Senior Software Engineer at LocalStack
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolStefanie Plieschnegger is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vienna with nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems and test automation for cloud-native tooling. Currently at LocalStack, she contributes to making AWS-compatible workflows testable locally and has added CloudWatch features and integration tests to one of the most widely used local AWS emulators. Her prior roles span software engineering and research, including significant work on mocking AWS services for the moto project, where she improved RDS tagging and put-metric-data support to make tests more realistic. Stefanie combines academic rigor from TU Wien with practical product delivery across startups and research labs, and she brings a strong focus on reliability, automated testing, and reproducible cloud environments. Colleagues can expect a developer who pairs careful test-first thinking with pragmatic enhancements that improve developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyAndroid Developer Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree at UdacityMatura, Matura at Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe
Github Skills (11)
boto10
cloudwatch10
aws10
python10
mocking10
integration-testing10
testing10
developer-tools7
dockers5
emr5
docker5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:291 reviews, 99 commits, 181 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stefanie primarily contributed to the `localstack/localstack` repository by implementing and modifying features related to the CloudWatch service. Their work involved adding functionalities such as `set_alarm_state` and related actions. The code changes demonstrate the user's involvement in testing the cloudwatch services, including various methods for putting and getting metric data, with a focus on integration tests using Python. These commits show a focus on enhancing the functionality of the local AWS cloud stack.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
getmoto/moto
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Stefanie primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `moto` library, focusing on mocking AWS RDS services. They added features for managing tags on RDS resources, corrected parameter handling, and supported the `put-metric-data` API with various functionalities, including `values` and `statistic-values`. Furthermore, the user implemented new test cases and modified existing ones to ensure the correct behavior of the mocked AWS services.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
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