Georg Link
Founder And President at Buwacon GmbH
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolGeorg Link is a technology and business leader with a PhD in Information Technology and over a decade of experience founding and scaling open-source–focused ventures and communities. As Founder & President of Anevir and former Director of Sales at Bitergia, he blends hands-on product development with measurable commercial growth, having driven a 60% sales increase and supported SBOM and project-health analytics. He cofounded CHAOSS and still steers its governance—launching DEI metrics work, managing GSoC contributions, and producing the CHAOSScast podcast—demonstrating deep expertise in community metrics and open-source stewardship. Georg pairs academic rigor (16 publications and doctoral research on DEI in open source) with practical engineering: contributing front-end fixes and UX features to widely used browser extensions. Based in Omaha, he balances strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering and community building, and outside work he’s an active board-game enthusiast and podcast host.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology at University of Nebraska at OmahaBachelor of Arts der Wirtschaftswissenschaften Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungen, Bachelor of Arts der Wirtschaftswissenschaften Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungen at WelfenAkademie, BraunschweigAbitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Julianum HelmstedtMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik (Management Information Systems), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik (Management Information Systems) at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English
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Github Skills (10)
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
css8
html8
xhtml8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Georg primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the browser extension. They fixed bugs related to resizing the inspector panel, ensuring the width is remembered and adjusts to window resizing. Additionally, the user implemented a feature that adds a select option for displaying the goal amount in the budget, along with the related warning for overbudgeting, modifying relevant settings. Their changes involved JavaScript code within the extension's features, along with changes to settings files.
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
chaoss/wg-dei
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
CHAOSS Working Group focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion metrics
Contributions:11 releases, 9 reviews, 193 commits in 3 years 8 months
diversity-analysisdiversityequity-researchdiversity-in-techdiversity-measurement
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