Sebastian Schaffert
Director Cloud Infrastructure & Distributed Systems at STACKIT
Marktschellenberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Schaffert is a seasoned engineering leader and director specializing in cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems, currently guiding STACKIT after leading Google's Information Retrieval SRE teams responsible for the entire Search backend across crawling, processing, semantic understanding, indexing and serving. With over a decade of hands-on SRE and management experience at Google—plus prior roles as CTO and founder of RedLink and head of research at Salzburg Research—he blends operational rigor with deep expertise in semantic search, Linked Data and open source. He has built and scaled global teams (50–100+ engineers), ensuring 24/7 reliability for mission-critical products like Search, Gmail, Meet and Maps while driving substantial software engineering improvements in platform and product. A PhD in Computer Science and longtime contributor to Apache Marmotta and Apache Stanbol reflect his research roots and commitment to open source and reproducible engineering. Outside tech he runs a small farm, a practical counterbalance that keeps him grounded and informs a pragmatic leadership style.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Chiemgau-Gymnasium TraunsteinDr, Computer Science, Dr, Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, Spanish, Swedish, French
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Github Skills (23)
datasets9
disk9
wikidata9
cpu8
monitoring7
python7
network7
freebase6
java5
cross-platform5
maven4
backend4
migration3
apache2
build-management2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wastl/freebase-primarysourcestool
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 1 month
freebasewikidatabackendmigrationsources
wastl/wastlernet
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 months
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