Sebastian M. is a technical leader with a strong focus on establishing a great engineering culture that serves individual team members' aspirations and the team as a whole. He has achieved a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Peer-to-Peer/Overlay Networks at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and a Diploma (MSc), Computer Science at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / University of Karlsruhe.

He has an impressive work background with top organizations, including being a Software Engineer - Site-Reliability Engineering (Ads) at Google, Senior Software Engineer Contractor at Virtual Power Systems, Research Backend Engineer at Sumo Logic, Scientific Staff Member (Ph.D candidate) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / University of Karlsruhe (TH), Student Research Assistant and Tutor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / University of Karlsruhe (TH), and a Software Contractor at Softgold / Rainbow Arts previously.

Sebastian's key values include trust/psychological safety first, transparency, room for risk-taking/audacious goals. He also has several key leadership attributes, such as the process needs to support culture, celebrate small successes, retrospectives, strong team ownership, no heroes, and no red tape. Sebastian is not interested in late-stage startups (5+ employees).