Maik Außendorf

Berater

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Maik Außendorf is a technology-focused advisor and former Bundestag member who blends a Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science with 13+ years of hands-on engineering and open-source leadership. He co-founded and led companies in the Bareos open-source backup ecosystem, where he contributed backend fixes and integrations while building international partner and key-account networks. Transitioning from founding CTO/MD roles to politics, he championed digital policy and the ecological transformation of industry as his parliamentary brief and served on advisory boards for the Bundesnetzagentur and mobile infrastructure. Comfortable at the intersection of tech, business and public policy, he now provides strategic and political consultancy on digitalization, sustainability and tech regulation. An early researcher in neural networks and a former Siemens SAP developer, he combines deep technical roots with practical experience scaling software businesses and shaping public digital agendas.

13 years of coding experience

22 years of employment as a software developer

Diplom-Mathematiker, Diplom-Mathematiker at Universität Münster

Abitur, Abitur at Immanuel Kant Gymnasium, Münster

Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematics and Computer Science, Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematics and Computer Science at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / University of Muenster

English, Spanish, German, Italian

Github Skills (7)

python10

plugin-development9

mysql8

archiving8

postgresql7

filesystem7

database-administration7

Programming languages (4)

C++ShellPHPPython

Github contributions (5)

bareos/bareos

May 2013 - Dec 2020

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:

Backend Developer

Contributions:21 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Maik primarily contributed to the Bareos backup solution by fixing issues related to error messages and option parsing. They addressed a cryptic error message in the BAT component and corrected the option parser for restore options. Additionally, the user integrated a Percona plugin, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the system's functionality.

operating-systembareosbackuprestorebackup-utility

bareos/bareos-contrib

Sep 2014 - Apr 2020

External contributions of unsupported code and scripts

Contributions:62 commits, 28 PRs, 47 pushes in 5 years 8 months

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