Florian Haas
Owner at Cleura
Austria
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Top SchoolFlorian Haas is a cloud and storage specialist with 14 years of experience building open source solutions and professional education platforms, notably around Open edX, OpenStack and Ceph. As a founder-turned-consultant he bootstrapped hastexo, sold it to a global cloud provider, and now runs Haas as a Service to deliver bespoke training and technical projects. He blends hands-on DevOps and technical writing—contributing to widely used projects like the Tutor Open edX distribution and ClusterLabs resource agents—to make complex distributed systems accessible and reproducible. At Cleura he leads educational offerings for global customers, translating deep infrastructure expertise into pragmatic learning experiences. Based in Austria, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with practical engineering, often documenting edge-case behaviors and compatibility issues that others miss.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Knowledge Management, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Knowledge Management at Fachhochschul-Studiengänge Burgenland
English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
podman10
docker10
xslt10
manpage10
configuration-management10
docker-compose10
dockers10
documentation10
openedx9
python9
cluster-api8
clustering8
cluster-manager8
cicd8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Nov 2011 - Jul 2015
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:77 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the documentation within the repository. Their changes involved modifications to man pages, XSL files used for generating documentation, and shell scripts related to resource agents. The focus of the contributions was on improving the clarity, accuracy, and completeness of the documentation, including details on migration, default values, and parameter descriptions. This included updates to formatting and the inclusion of double quotes in string parameters.
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overhangio/tutor
Dec 2019 - May 2022
The Docker-based Open edX distribution designed for peace of mind
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on improving the documentation and configuration options for running the Tutor platform. They added instructions and warnings related to running Tutor with Podman and addressed compatibility issues. Additionally, the user enhanced the documentation to clarify how plugin authors can access the Click context and configuration settings. They also introduced configuration parameters for the platform repository and NPM registry.
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