Georg Apitz
Founder & Chief People Whisperer at Sounding Board, Inc
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorg Apitz is a founder and leadership coach with 13 years of engineering experience who blends people-centered leadership with deep backend and DevOps chops. Based in Boulder, he runs Usebar LLC as Chief People Whisperer while coaching leaders at Sounding Board, drawing on a technical foundation from significant contributions to Cloud Foundry projects like loggregator-release and cloud_controller_ng. His open-source work shows practical expertise in cloud-native logging, syslog drains, and configuration-driven reliability, reflecting a taste for refactoring and operational robustness. Trained in Germany and the U.S. (Leipzig University; M.Sc. and Ph.D. work at University of Maryland), he pairs rigorous academic thinking with hands-on system improvements and a knack for translating technical complexity into better team outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
B.Sc., B.Sc. at Leipzig UniversityM.Sc., M.Sc. at University of Maryland
German, English
Github Skills (10)
syslog10
ruby10
configuration-management10
go10
cloud-foundry10
etcd10
testing10
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/loggregator-release
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
Cloud Native Logging
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 1 push in 10 months
Contributions summary:Georg primarily focused on modifying and improving the `loggregator-release` project, a cloud-native logging system. Their contributions included refactoring code to use appservices, managing syslog drains, implementing configuration options like dump sink timeouts, and refactoring code to use explicit connect calls as part of an etcd upgrade. The user also made changes to the DEA agent which consumed data from the Loggregator system.
golangcloud-foundryfluentdloggingcff-wg-app-runtime-platform
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Georg primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. Their work included adding specifications for configuration settings, modifying existing configuration files, and refactoring spec helpers to avoid duplicate configuration logic. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the system's internal workings and the dependencies between different components. This indicates a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the core backend functionality.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
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