Sebastian is a programmer and computational linguist living in the south of Germany. He is responsible for running and maintaining the crawler and will support you to use the data. Prior to joining Common Crawl, he worked as software developer at Exorbyte, implementing search and data quality solutions.

Sebastian holds a PhD in computational linguistics from University of Munich. He studied linguistics (Slavic languages) and cultural anthropology in Munich, Kazan and Prague. Sebastian is a committer of Apache Nutch and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.