Harvard Business School

Eindhoven University of Technology

Dortmund University

Leader at Sovereign Cloud Stack

Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS): Defining and implementing a fully open source modular software stack that deliver cloud, container and platform services to build a federated sovereign infrastructure ecosystem for Gaia-X.
Linking the various teams that implement and operate such stacks based on existing open source projects and build the integration, automation, validation together as open source. Collaborate on building operational knowledge and tooling in an OpenDevOps model.
Lead the publicly funded project at the OSBA as CTO/CPO.

OSB Alliance (Open Source Business Alliance)

Co-Leader / CTO SCS

IT strategy, technology and engineering consulting.
Deep experience in open source infrastructure software: networking, operating system and cloud solutions.
Business Development and competitive strategy.
IT development processes and architecture.

Kurt Garloff IT Consulting

IT Consultant

Building a modern Infra-as-Code platform (Software Defined Infrastructure, IaaS, CaaS/KaaS, PaaS), standardizing and composing open source software to help operators (CSPs but also Company IT departments and govenment agencies) to deploy and run a sovereign, secure, federated self-service platform. Sovereign Cloud Stack (https://scs.community/) is part of the larger GAIA-X effort.

Sovereign Cloud Stack

Leader

Leadership for SUSE's Cloud, Storage and Infrastructure Engineering teams.

SUSE

VP Engineering Software Defined Infrastructure

Driving the technical strategy for Open Telekom Cloud and building teams to support it.

T-Systems

Open Telekom Cloud Lead Architect

Building out Open Telekom Cloud, our Public Cloud offering based on OpenStack.
Business and Technology Strategy and Implementation Planning.

OpenStack Cloud Architect

Buillding up engineering skills and team for OpenStack development in Europe.
Supporting with building out Open Source and OpenStack strategy, tieing engineering efforts to community developments.

Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd

Principal Cloud Architect

My department is responsible for the architecture, the implementation and involved with the operation of the platform and infrastructure for TelekomCloud.
We do both consumer cloud (Mediencenter, which we relaunched in August 2012) and SMB cloud. On the latter, we're building up OpenStack based hosting automation.

Deutsche Telekom

VP Engineering Cloud Services (DBU)

Running engineering teams that work closely with technology partners to orchestrate the co-development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Platform, to ensure hardware enablement, certification and supportability and maintainability.
Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role.

VP Partner Engineering

Running engineering teams that work closely with technology partners to orchestrate the co-development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Platform, to ensure hardware enablement, certification and supportability and maintainability.
Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role, most importantly with SAP.

Novell

VP OPS Partner Engineering

Identify and analyze partnership opportunities that create added value for our customers. Negotiate the terms and drive them through the corporate acceptance process.
Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role, most importantly with SAP.
Lead Strategy development project for the BU that shapes our appliance and cloud strategy.

VP Business Development OPS

Working on strategic global opportunities that bring SUSE Linux into new spaces.
Special assignment to move the relationship with SAP to the next level.

OPS - SUSE Linux Products - Novell Inc

VP Product Management (Global Opp.)

Responsible for the SUSE R&D team inside Novell's Open Platforms Solutions Business Unit (leading ~200 engineers and managing associated budget).
Received signature authority.

SUSE R&D, Novell Inc.

Acting VP of Engineering

Design processes, projects and product features suitable for a company in the open source ecosystem.

Novell Inc

Linux R&D Head Architect (Director)

After the acquisition from Novell: Continue to manage the world's greatest collection of open source engineers.

SUSE Labs contains numerous engineers in the areas Linux Kernel (VM, I/O, x86-64, ALSA, Input, Filesystems, ...), Toolchain/Compiler (gcc), X11, KDE and with the addition of the Immunix team and the Security team also developers in the security area. Introduce team structure and pass some responsibility to team leaders.

- Encourage participation in the open source forums (ML, IRC, Conferences, ...)
- Internal exchange (Labs conference), with varying hardware partner sponsorships
- Prepare and maintain base components for SUSE Linux, SLES, openSUSE
- L3 support for SLES customers; handle customer escalations
- Development projects with partners
- Improve automated testing
- Move into virtualization

SUSE Linux Products GmbH, A Novell Business

Director SUSE Labs

SUSE Labs is a set of great engineers in the open source area. Various kernel engineers and toolchain/gcc developers.
- Team building
- Internal conferences and  Open Source events participation
- Development Projects
- Delivery, maintenance and support of software components for SUSE Linux / SLES;
  take over responsibility for kernel and compiler.