Sven Hüster
IT Systems Engineer at Mattermost
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Hüster is an experienced IT systems engineer and technical support leader based in Berlin with 11 years in backend engineering, sysadmin work, and occasional frontend development. At Mattermost he progressed from developer to Manager of Customer Reliability Engineering, contributing open-source improvements such as enhanced Slack import support and search optimizations for the flagship Mattermost platform. He combines hands-on troubleshooting and documentation skills—having updated core docs and desktop troubleshooting guides—with operational leadership of support teams. Sven’s background in computer science and embedded systems gives him a pragmatic systems-level perspective, and he pursues VR hardware and software projects as a technical hobby that informs his interest in real-world integrations.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Technische Informatik (Embedded Systems), Bachelor of Engineering - BE Technische Informatik (Embedded Systems) at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)Computer Science, Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (13)
golang10
mattermost10
go10
slack-integration10
documentation10
postgresql9
full-text-search9
database-management8
collaboration8
api-design5
restful-api5
rest-api5
api-rest5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/docs
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
Mattermost documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:55 reviews, 61 commits, 79 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to the project by updating and enhancing the Mattermost documentation. Their commits focused on improving troubleshooting information for the desktop app, adding details to the Zoom plugin setup guide, providing comprehensive documentation for email templates, and correcting spelling and formatting errors. The user's work appears to be focused on clarifying existing documentation and expanding its scope for different use cases.
mattermost-documentationmattermost
mattermost/mattermost
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 16 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to the Mattermost platform by enhancing Slack import functionality. Their work involved adding support for importing corporate Slack data, including channels, posts, and attachments. They also addressed issues related to direct messages and incorporated new features such as post properties import. Furthermore, the user optimized the codebase by introducing specific full-text indexes for improved search performance.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
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