Steffen Siering
Software Engineer at Xata.io
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSteffen Siering is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building backend systems and developer-focused products across startups and large enterprises. Based in Berlin, he has contributed to product and platform engineering at Elastic and now at Xata.io, bringing deep expertise in scalable data and search technologies. His career also includes roles at Oracle and networking-focused Acme Packet, reflecting strength in performance-sensitive, distributed systems. A Diplom-Ingenieur in Computer Engineering from TU Berlin, Steffen pairs rigorous academic training with practical, production-first engineering. Known for steady long-term contributions to critical infrastructure teams, he blends disciplined system design with an appetite for solving tricky operational challenges.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur (Univ.), Computer Engineering, with honors, Diplom-Ingenieur (Univ.), Computer Engineering, with honors at Technische Universität Berlin / TU Berlin
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
variants10
distributed-tracing10
heartbeat10
opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
tempo10
streaming10
monitoring10
continuous-testing10
feature-toggle10
mutex10
go-client10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
urso/go-txfile
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:175 pushes, 64 branches in 2 years
elastic/go-lumber
Jun 2016 - Feb 2021
Go based lumberjack client and server implementation.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 10 PRs in 4 years 9 months
golanglogstashbeatslumberjackserver
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