Thorben Starsy
Founder at easyreview
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolThorben Starsy is a founder and software leader with 17 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and scalable web and cross-platform apps from Hamburg. He currently leads easyreview, a SaaS product streamlining performance reviews, engagement and OKR workflows for busy small HR teams, and runs Thorben Schröder Consulting to help startups ship large-scale platforms. A hands-on engineer who still digs into code, he has contributed back-end improvements and test coverage to open-source tooling like the timetrap CLI, showing an emphasis on reliability and maintainability. Thorben practices servant leadership, prioritizing clear documentation, shared culture and getting teams aligned to deliver quickly. He’s spoken at conferences worldwide and co-organized So Coded in Hamburg, blending community-building with product and engineering craft. Trained in computer science and economics, he pairs technical depth with a product-minded, pragmatic approach to solving HR and operational challenges.
17 years of coding experience
Abitur, Abitur at Hansa Gymnasium BergedorfBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Economics at Universität HamburgBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Universität Bremen
English, German, French, Latin
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Github Skills (7)
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
bundler8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
samg/timetrap
Dec 2010 - Dec 2010
Simple command line timetracker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thorben primarily focused on enhancing the command-line timetracker's functionality and improving its test coverage. They added support for bundler, a dependency management tool, suggesting a focus on project setup and maintainability. Additionally, the user implemented a "continue" (renamed to "resume") command, extending the application's core features. The commits also include significant work on updating and refining the tests, indicating involvement in ensuring the software's reliability.
command-line
quarter-spiral/privategems-app
Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:180 commits in 11 months
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