Georg Kunz
Technical Advisory Committee at TODO (OSPO) Group
Germany
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Top SchoolGeorg Kunz is a seasoned open-source and telecom technology leader with nine years of industry experience and a PhD-level background in computer science from RWTH Aachen. He currently serves on the OpenSSF Technical Advisory Committee and as an alternate on its Governing Board, while leading open source strategy for Ericsson’s Group as Director of the Open Source Program Office. His career blends deep systems engineering—SDN, NFV, cloud platforms and private mobile networks—with hands-on community leadership in projects like OPNFV and Anuket, where he has held technical steering roles. Georg is experienced at converting research-grade prototypes and distributed simulation insights into production-ready telecom solutions and CI/CD-integrated testing frameworks. He is known for bridging academic rigor with pragmatic productization, and for navigating governance, compliance and strategic engagement across large open-source ecosystems. Based in Germany, he quietly combines technical authorship (17 academic publications) with high-level stewardship of open-source policy and strategy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.), Computer Science, Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.), Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityDiploma (M.Sc. equiv.), Computer Science, Diploma (M.Sc. equiv.), Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
German, English
Github Skills (200)
sdn-network10
reporter10
infrastructure10
svg10
nfv10
governance10
opcodes10
inspect10
javascript10
clang-tidy10
tidy10
kubernetes10
groovy10
foundation10
openhab10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ExpertLearningLab/foss-learning
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Free Open Source Software Course Texts
Contributions:15 reviews, 49 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 months
gkunz/openssf-tac
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Technical Advisory Council
Contributions:39 pushes, 4 branches, 7 comments in 2 years 10 months
advisorycouncil
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