Kai Tietz
Lead Software Engineer at Hex-Rays SA
Neutraubling, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarKai Tietz is a Lead Software Engineer based in Neutraubling, Germany, with roughly seven years of focused experience building and hardening developer tooling and low-level infrastructure. He has held roles across industry staples—Anaconda, Red Hat, Linaro and Hex-Rays—bridging toolchain optimization, build systems, and backend/DevOps work. Kai’s open-source contributions to high-profile projects like conda/conda and conda-build show practical expertise in cross-platform packaging, Windows compatibility, DLL handling, and rsync reliability improvements. Comfortable operating at the intersection of build engineering and platform compatibility, he brings an engineer’s attention to corner cases (e.g., paths with spaces, case sensitivity, and s390x/CentOS variants) that often make or break production tooling. Colleagues rely on him to turn nuanced build problems into robust, automatable solutions that scale across OSes and architectures.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
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Github Skills (15)
windows10
conda10
devops10
python10
package-management10
configuration-management9
rsync9
testing8
rpm8
r7
c176
numba6
pysal6
c116
bash5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
conda/conda
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kai's contributions primarily focus on improving the conda package and environment manager's build process and Windows compatibility. This includes modifying the build script for miniconda on Windows to handle spaces in paths. They also improved download behavior by preloading required DLLs, and adjusting DLL names and versions, demonstrating a deep understanding of the underlying system. Furthermore, the user added a force option for deletion in the rsync implementation, improving reliability.
os-agnosticcondaagnosticpackage-managerlinux
AnacondaRecipes/tapi-feedstock
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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