Dirk Hohndel
Senior Director, Head Of The Open Source Program Office at DH Consulting
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDirk Hohndel is a veteran open source strategist and software engineer who blends over three decades of development and community leadership with executive experience guiding enterprise open source programs. As Senior Director and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Verizon and former Chief Open Source Officer at VMware and Intel, he builds processes that turn open source into technological differentiation and business value. He’s a trusted advisor and board veteran who has led due diligence for acquisitions, driven company entries into projects like Kubernetes, and shaped governance at the Linux Foundation. Hands-on at heart, he still maintains projects such as Subsurface Divelog and contributes to packaging tooling like AppImage pkg2appimage, keeping practical build-and-release skills sharp. Known for making complex policy and compliance accessible, he frequently translates technical nuance into business strategy for diverse audiences. Based in Portland with a master’s in mathematics and computer science, Dirk pairs deep kernel- and C/C++-level expertise with a talent for community-first program design.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
German, English
Github Skills (13)
packaging10
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
appimage10
scripting10
build-automation10
linux9
centos9
cmake8
git8
deb7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release EngineerContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily contributed to the build process and packaging of applications within the repository. Their commits focused on refining the build scripts, particularly the recipes used to convert deb packages to AppImages. They addressed issues with dependencies, configuration, and environment setup (like adding the correct repository), and streamlined the build and deployment process. Further, they refactored some of the build scripts for cleaner execution and better functionality.
deb-packagesrecipespackaginglinuxappimage
subsurface/subsurface
Sep 2011 - Jan 2023
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Contributions:1 release, 638 reviews, 7084 commits in 11 years 5 months
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
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