Jörg Steffens
Geschäftsführer at Bareos GmbH & Co. KG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
🤩
RockstarJörg Steffens is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with 14 years in software leadership, currently serving as Geschäftsführer of Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and formerly leading dass IT GmbH. He combines C-level business ownership with hands-on back-end development, contributing to notable open-source projects like Spacewalk and Bareos where he improved CLI tooling, JSON support, and robust error handling for system configuration and backup infrastructure. Based in Cologne, he specializes in reliable, auditable server-side systems and operational tooling that bridge product requirements and developer workflows. His contributions show a practical focus on improving command-line user experience, data interchange, and syncing/diffing of configuration channels—areas that often go overlooked but are critical for large-scale operations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (15)
json10
command-line-interface10
python10
command-line10
cli10
mysql9
web-deployment9
c119
deploying9
web-deploy9
c179
git9
database-design8
api4
apidoc4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bareos/bareos
May 2013 - Jan 2023
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:370 reviews, 1486 commits, 403 PRs in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jörg primarily focused on improving the Bareos Director's code base by addressing various code-related issues. The contributions include removing unnecessary quotes to generate valid JSON output, implementing a Bareos-specific version of base64 encoding, and improving support for JSON output in the director's console. The user also worked on cleaning up dot commands and database query issues.
pythonbareoscephbackup-solutionbackup
spacewalkproject/spacewalk
Dec 2011 - Nov 2014
The master repository for the Spacewalk Project.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jörg primarily contributed to the `spacecmd` tool, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the Spacewalk project. They implemented features to improve the `activationkey_details` command, sorting child channels and packages. Additionally, they added functions for syncing and diffing configuration and software channels, as well as errata, demonstrating expertise in managing system configuration and software deployment through the command-line interface. Several changes also include improvements to error handling and documentation.
masterspacewalk
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.