Dirk Mueller
Distinguished Engineer at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Mueller is a Distinguished Engineer with 26 years of experience in cloud, Linux and embedded systems engineering, based in Nuremberg, Germany. At SUSE he has driven OpenStack integration, hardening and upstream fixes while evolving into a technical leader responsible for architecture and maintenance of cloud stacks. A prolific open-source contributor, Dirk improves code quality, Python 3 compatibility and build/test infrastructure across major projects such as OpenStack (Nova, Cinder, Swift, Horizon, DevStack), the Open Build Service and the ESP8266 Arduino core. His work blends backend and DevOps expertise with hands-on embedded/IoT firmware improvements and automated test engineering, often focusing on maintainability, cross-distribution compatibility and CI resilience. Notably, he has shaped vulnerability detection for SLES/openSUSE in the Trivy scanner and fixed subtle issues from license headers to UEFI live-migration paths, showing attention to both large-scale architecture and small but critical details.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
English, German
Github Skills (108)
python10
vulnerability-scanners10
testing10
firmware10
command-line-interface10
bash10
perl10
refactor10
security10
automation10
vulnerability-detection10
install-script10
autoit10
embedded10
rest-api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/requirements
Mar 2013 - May 2020
Global requirements for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:138 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily focused on improving and maintaining the OpenStack requirements repository's build and testing infrastructure. Their contributions include implementing XFAIL handling for known issues within the check-uc Jenkins job, and also modifying and correcting existing validation, build, and test scripts. They also made changes to the documentation, and improved the consistency and accuracy of the build process.
opendevopenstack
opendata-stuttgart/sensors-software
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
sourcecode for reading sensor data
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 345 commits, 143 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily worked on the firmware for reading sensor data, making improvements to the code related to reading and processing sensor data. The user addressed issues regarding response times from the server by adding delays, optimized the size of the codebase by removing redundant includes and unused code, and corrected an issue related to the firmware's handling of language variants. The user's changes demonstrate experience with embedded systems, hardware integration, and sensor communication protocols.
iot-devicesensor-readingsourcecodearduinosensor
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