Francesco Gringl-novy
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolFrancesco Gringl-novy is an engineering manager based in Vienna with 11 years of experience, currently leading the JavaScript SDK team at Sentry. He pairs hands-on front-end craftsmanship—strong HTML/CSS, accessibility and performance sensibilities—with back-end expertise in tracing and OpenTelemetry, contributing directly to Sentry’s official JS SDK and documentation. Previously CTO and frontend developer at Fabscale, he built web products for industrial coffee roasteries and improved developer onboarding and SDK loader workflows. An active open-source contributor across Sentry, Ember and rrweb, he has worked on build tooling, SDK instrumentation and UI refinements that affect large developer audiences. He holds an MSc in Digital Mediatechnology and enjoys team-focused work culture—off-hours he recharges with tennis, skiing and the occasional round of Mario Kart.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Digital Mediatechnology, Master of Science (MSc) Digital Mediatechnology at FH Sankt Pölten
German, English, Portuguese, French, English
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Github Skills (73)
error-reporting10
node-js10
testing10
test-framework10
webpack410
bug-tracking10
ember10
opentelemetry10
linting10
webpack-410
webpack210
trace10
webpack310
javascript10
react-components10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-javascript
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Official Sentry SDKs for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2864 reviews, 181 commits, 2582 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Francesco contributed to the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for the Sentry JavaScript SDK, focusing on performance tracing and monitoring. Their work included implementing support for `forceTransaction` within OpenTelemetry's Node.js package, ensuring the accurate creation and tracking of spans, and establishing accurate parent-child relationships. Furthermore, the user refactored code to incorporate the new tracing API, adding a system to identify whether a span has a remote parent and adjust the behavior of trace propagation based on it, as well as adding support for attaching the `response` context to `http.server` spans. The user's contributions involved modifying various files related to instrumentation, trace handling, and span creation.
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getsentry/sentry-docs
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:462 reviews, 5 commits, 285 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco focused on improving the documentation website's user interface and functionality. Their work included implementing new features, such as an organization token selector, and refactoring existing components. They also addressed bugs, updated styles, and improved the overall user experience by modifying the rendering of elements and integrating new JavaScript features. The user contributed to improving the site's performance and updated documentation related to JavaScript integrations and SDK options.
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