Heinz Mauelshagen
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat GmbH
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHeinz Mauelshagen is a Distinguished Engineer with 26 years of experience in storage and systems software, best known as the creator of the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and dmraid and a co-developer of device-mapper and LVM2. Based in the Cologne/Bonn region and currently at Red Hat, he blends deep kernel-level C expertise with scripting languages (Perl, Ruby, Shell) and a long history in distributed computing, clustering and high-availability systems. His career spans hands-on architecture and leadership roles from Deutsche Telekom to Sistina Software, where he led core LVM development and shaped storage tooling used across Linux ecosystems. Heinz regularly translates low-level storage concepts into resilient, production-grade solutions and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on device-mapper/LVM topics. An electrical engineering graduate, he brings both theoretical rigor and decades of practical, battle-tested engineering to large-scale storage problems.
26 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing., Electrical Engineering, Dipl. Ing., Electrical Engineering at Fachhochschule Aachen
English, French, latin ;-)
Github Skills (102)
distro10
linux10
linux-kernel10
zen10
kernel10
forum10
armv810
raid10
upstream10
raspberry10
manjaro10
raspberry-pi10
thin9
moto9
galaxy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mauelsha/linux
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:223 commits, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
mauelsha/dm-hstore
Mar 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
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