Fabian Vogt
Release Engineer at SUSE
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarFabian Vogt is a Release Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience in systems, testing, and release automation, currently based in the Greater Nuremberg area and working at SUSE. He blends deep low-level expertise—bootloaders, initramfs, Btrfs and EFI secure boot—with test automation and DevOps practice, contributing to well-known open-source projects like dracut, KIWI, os-autoinst and SDDM. Fabian’s work spans building reliable OS images, fixing QEMU/USB boot issues, and hardening test suites for openSUSE, evidencing a pragmatic focus on reproducible system delivery. Colleagues rely on him for subtle platform fixes (e.g., GRUB2 hybrid/secure-boot handling and multipath warnings) that quietly prevent production outages. He pairs meticulous backend and release engineering skills with a track record of cross-project integrations and long-term maintenance.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (47)
administrator10
debug10
c-language10
system-configuration10
admin10
qt10
btrfs10
session-management10
python10
qemu10
scripting10
testing10
testcase10
initramfs10
configuration-management10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
ndless-nspire/Ndless
Mar 2014 - Oct 2022
The TI-Nspire calculator extension for native applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 10 reviews, 425 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabian's commits primarily focus on modifying system-level code and building tools for the TI-Nspire calculator. They made changes to C++ code, including fixes related to C++ components and permissions. They integrated newlib, a C library, into the project and resolved build issues. Their contributions extend to low-level system programming with changes to assembly code and the Zehn binary format.
nspirecalculatornative-applicationsti-nspire
sddm/sddm
Sep 2016 - Jan 2021
QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:187 reviews, 42 commits, 147 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily contributed to the SDDM display manager project by fixing bugs, and enhancing the user experience. Their work included improving the default cursor appearance, parsing desktop file sections for session management, and addressing issues related to authentication and session reuse. Additionally, they worked on fixing typos in the configuration documentation, and improving how HiDPI is enabled.
qmlwaylanddisplay-managerx11linux
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