Sebastian Poxhofer
Platform Engineer
St. Pölten, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolSebastian Poxhofer is a Senior SRE with a decade of experience building resilient, scalable platforms and currently leading SRE efforts at N26. He blends hands-on platform engineering and architecture work with open-source stewardship as a maintainer of Renovate and an OpenTelemetry contributor. His backend contributions to the popular Backstage project improved GitHub integrations by streamlining resource fetching and handling rate limits more gracefully, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience. Based in St. Pölten, Austria, he also operates as a freelance platform engineer/architect, bridging startup agility with enterprise-grade operations. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced API and rate-limiting edge cases into robust, maintainable code and for fostering observability-driven operational practices.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
typescript10
github-integration10
gitlab10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
backend10
gitlab-ci9
error-handling9
nodejs9
backstage8
experiences7
portal7
developer-tools7
developper7
gitlab-ci-runner6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jun 2022 - Jan 2026
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 28 PRs, 76 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `GithubUrlReader` class within the `backstage` repository's backend common library. Their contributions involved streamlining the fetching of GitHub resources, including optimizing how the `fetchResponse` method is used. They also addressed rate limiting issues by incorporating the `x-ratelimit-remaining` header and implementing appropriate error handling. These changes enhance the efficiency and resilience of the system's integration with GitHub.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
secustor/backstage-plugins
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
contains backstage plugins written and maintained by myself
Contributions:15 releases, 88 reviews, 571 PRs in 2 years 4 months
backstagebackstage-plugins
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