Bruno Friedmann
Co-Fondateur, Directeur, Consultant
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBruno Friedmann is a seasoned open-source-focused technologist and co-founder who has spent over two decades advising, building and maintaining IT systems for SMEs through Ioda-Net Sàrl while also providing senior-level support for mission-critical backup at Bareos. He combines hands-on technical writing—improving Bareos documentation and authoring new MariaDB plugin guides—with practical consulting and system administration experience rooted in libre software. An active community contributor and leader since the early 2000s, Bruno has been involved with openSUSE governance and PostgreSQL association activities, bringing both ambassadorial and board-level perspectives. Based in Cologne with Swiss ties, he blends pragmatic customer-first support with a knack for turning complex backup and configuration topics into clear, usable documentation.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BTS, Informatique de Gestion, BTS, Informatique de Gestion at CCI Colmar
French, English
Github Skills (8)
documentation10
sphinx10
configuration-file9
configurations9
configuration-management9
mariadb7
archiving5
backup5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bareos/bareos
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:645 reviews, 221 commits, 183 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily contributed to the project by updating and improving the project documentation. They addressed several documentation-related issues, including fixing typos, clarifying explanations, and providing additional examples. The contributions also included reorganizing and expanding existing documentation sections, with a focus on configuration options and plugin documentation, as well as creating new documentation chapters for the MariaDB mariabackup plugin, thus improving overall documentation quality and usability.
pythonbareoscephbackup-solutionbackup
bruno-at-bareos/bareos
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Main repository with the code for the libraries and daemons
Contributions:25 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
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