Georg Held
VP Engineering at HiveMQ
Freising, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolGeorg Held is a VP Engineering at HiveMQ with 11 years of experience building secure, reliable, and scalable MQTT solutions for industrial and enterprise systems. He rose through engineering and product leadership roles at HiveMQ—from intern to VP—combining deep expertise in distributed systems, Java, and cybersecurity with pragmatic people leadership. Georg is hands-on with core infrastructure and test automation, contributing to the open-source HiveMQ Community Edition to improve broker reliability. He prioritizes product quality and engineering culture while developing high-performing teams that deliver in production-critical environments. Based in Freising, he balances technical rigor with adventurous pursuits like whitewater kayaking and tabletop RPG worldbuilding, which inform his collaborative and creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Physik, Diplom Physik at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster Informatik, Master Informatik at Hochschule Landshut
Github Skills (11)
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java10
mqttnet10
unit-testing9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hivemq/hivemq-community-edition
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 59 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Georg primarily worked on improving the test suite for the HiveMQ community edition, as demonstrated by the commits focused on enabling and disabling preconditions for test execution. The commits involve changes to the client queue persistence test and involved modifying various test files to ensure that tests ran correctly. These changes show the user's involvement in improving the reliability and functionality of the core broker system.
mqtt-servermqtt-brokerhivemqconnectivitymqtt-protocol
HAW-Dating/P2PDatingApp
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 107 pushes, 13 branches in 10 months
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