Tobias Lins
Staff Software Engineer at Vercel
Austria
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Top SchoolTobias Lins is a Staff Software Engineer and founder-turned-builder with 10 years of experience shipping full-stack, privacy-focused analytics and observability products. He founded Splitbee, an all-in-one analytics and conversion tool acquired by Vercel, and now helps build Vercel Analytics while also running HoneyJar GmbH. Tobias blends hands-on engineering—from Node.js and TypeScript backends to React frontends—with system architecture and product instincts, evidenced by contributions to projects like an avatar microservice and the Lisk SDK. His work emphasizes UX, privacy, and maintainable code, and he has a history of improving code quality, refactoring complex systems, and optimizing performance. Based in Austria, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with production-grade engineering and a knack for turning developer-facing features into elegant, efficient services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Informationstechnologie, Matura, Informationstechnologie at Technologisches Gewerbemuseum
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Github Skills (33)
notion-api10
javascript10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
image-processing10
typescript10
cloudflare-workers10
avatar10
svg10
api10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react-native9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/avatar
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
💎 Beautiful avatars as a microservice
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 79 commits, 27 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias implemented the core functionality for the avatar microservice, including generating gradient-based avatar images and SVG representations. They refactored the code structure and improved the color management algorithm, including adding support for custom sizes and SVG file types. The developer also integrated a random avatar generation feature and optimized performance by adding caching mechanisms.
random-avatarsavatarsbeautiful-avatarsavatar-placeholdervercel
splitbee/notion-api-worker
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Notion as CMS with easy API access
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 25 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tobias contributed to implementing the core functionalities of a Notion-based CMS, focusing on pages, tables, and user management. Their work involved developing API interactions with the Notion API to fetch and process data. They created and modified TypeScript types and implemented routes for fetching and displaying data from Notion, including page content, table data, and user information, while also addressing error handling and caching.
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