Felix Niederwanger
Security Maintenance Engineer at SUSE
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorFelix Niederwanger is a Security Maintenance Engineer at SUSE with 11 years of experience blending infrastructure, automation testing, and open-source stewardship. With a background in astroparticle physics and hands-on Linux sysadmin work, he shifted into software engineering focused on container, image, and public cloud QA. At SUSE he contributes to critical automated testing for openSUSE—adding tests for GD, Valgrind, wpa_supplicant, btrfsmaintenance and KVM integration—demonstrating deep DevOps and backend testing expertise. He values community-driven, AI-free open-source contributions and brings practical resilience from prior service in firefighting, rescue, and humanitarian aid. Based in North Brabant, he is actively exploring ways to support local and global communities while continuing to improve infrastructure reliability.
11 years of coding experience
German, English, Italian, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
sh10
automated-tests10
linux10
test-framework10
script10
valgrind10
shell10
scripting10
testing10
kvm9
wpa-supplicant9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
os-autoinst test cases for openSUSE
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2066 reviews, 399 commits, 793 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Felix contributed significantly to the automated testing infrastructure of the openSUSE OS autoinst project. They implemented tests for the GD Graphics Library and the Valgrind memory debugging tool, encompassing the creation of test scripts and integration with the existing framework. They also added tests for the wpa_supplicant and btrfsmaintenance utilities. Additionally, the user made a code change to integrate with the KVM virtualization.
opensusecasestest-cases
grisu48/pasta
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Stupid simple pastebin service
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 2 months
golangpastebindockerpastebin-servicego
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