I still remember the first time when I collaborated with Wolfgang. He was such a kind and open minded person with a such a great value system.
Together with the amazing Denx crew we upstreamed all our custom CPU modules to the U-Boot source code. We also collaborated on the 2038 support within glibc, Linux Kernel and of course U-Boot.
I still remember when I did a demo of GitLab and Travis CI to Wolfgang and of course we also exchanged on personal topics such as nice restaurants in Usedom.
Once I explained Wolfgang about the pain of license compliance and shared the idea to use SPDX-License-Identifier. He agreed on solving this at the source code level like engineers would do and he made https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/eca3aeb352c964... in 2013. Nowadays, this ended up within Linux Kernel and many other widely used open source projects.
He was a real pioneer and I'm so sad he passed away. I will always remember and wish all the best to family and friends!
Looking for a chance to create a positive impact on our society?
Our team provides the internal social coding platform code.siemens.com and its eco-system to over 40000 people within Siemens. You are a recognized leader in the global Open Source community and will coach and lead our developer community towards to Open Source collaboration style. You become part of a small team of highly skilled people. We are using Infrastructure as Code, Containers and many other technologies as part of this growing eco-system.
As a Senior Open Source Specialist, you will:
- Coach and guide the 20000 developers across all organizations (Business Units, Corporate Units, etc.) on the Open Source way of working and related tooling
- Influence major strategic decisions at Siemens regarding implementation of Open Source culture and tools
- Contribute towards strategic Open Source Software projects on behalf of Siemens
- Implement API thinking and guide developers on APIs
To make a difference, you must be:
- Recognized as established Open Source leader, contributor and maintainer within well-known projects
- A master or PhD in Computer Science or in related fields
- An open source specialist with +10 years experience in developing and analyzing complex distributed systems
- Someone with a proven track record of shaping the culture regarding Open Source within a multinational company
- An expert with strong cybersecurity mindset and understanding of typical attack vectors
- Knowledgeable on Linux, CI/CD and multiple programming languages
- Fluent in English, (Portuguese or German a plus)
