Andreas Jaeger is a Senior Product Manager with 26 years in Linux and open source, who led the x86-64 Linux and glibc ports at SUSE and later bridged company and community as Program Manager for openSUSE. He now oversees SUSE Enterprise Storage (Ceph-based) and has a rare mix of deep systems engineering experience and product leadership across distributed, multi-site teams. A meticulous contributor to OpenStack projects, his GitHub work shows a focus on code quality, documentation, CI/CD and Python 3 modernization across core services like Nova, Cinder and Swift. Comfortable both shipping low-level platform work and running conferences/releases, he combines technical curiosity with strong coordination, release management and marketing collaboration. He studied computer science in Kaiserslautern and Edinburgh and still prefers solving technical challenges in open environments.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
Dipl.Inf., Computer Science, Dipl.Inf., Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
OpenStack Database As A Service (Trove). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:42 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on improving the quality and consistency of help strings within the OpenStack Trove project. Their contributions included edits to help strings, correcting formatting, capitalization, and wording to align with the oslo.config style guide. Additionally, the user made code modifications to the `trove/common/cfg.py`, `trove/common/debug_utils.py`, `trove/db/__init__.py`, and `trove/cmd/manage.py` files, showing involvement in configuration, logging, and database-related aspects of the service. This work reflects a focus on code maintainability and usability.
OpenStack Identity (Keystone) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:28 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the OpenStack Identity (Keystone) client, focusing on improving the command-line interface and documentation. They refined the output of the `discover` command and improved help strings for various user and tenant-related actions. Additionally, the user updated the project's documentation build process, switching to newer documentation tools and fixing publishing issues related to release notes. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and documentation quality.
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