Holger Hetterich
Program Manager at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHolger Hetterich is a technically grounded Program Manager with 18 years of experience in Linux, open source, and customer-facing engineering roles, currently driving strategic technical partnerships at SUSE. He combines deep hands-on expertise—RPM packaging, C/C++ development, Samba contributions and L3 support—with a pragmatic focus on processes that make maintenance and collaboration predictable and reliable. Comfortable translating customer perspectives into engineering priorities, Holger emphasizes realism, honesty and dedication when building long-term relationships. His background as a Samba developer and longtime SUSE maintainer gives him rare credibility when coordinating between support, release engineering and development teams.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Fachabitur, Information Technologies, Fachabitur, Information Technologies at Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule NürnbergIT-Assistant, Information Technologies, IT-Assistant, Information Technologies at Berufsfachschule I NürnbergHeizungsbauer, Heating Installer, Heizungsbauer, Heating Installer at Berufsschule Erlangen
English, German
Github Skills (2)
samba8
git-repo6
Github contributions (5)
hhetter/smbtatools
Feb 2010 - Dec 2013
Contributions:723 commits in 3 years 10 months
gwr/samba
Sep 2008 - May 2011
Contributions:24 commits in 2 years 8 months
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