Matthias Sohn
Community Manager - Gerrit Code Review at Open Source
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Sohn is a seasoned open-source leader and engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Git-related tooling and cloud-native projects, currently serving as Community Manager and Maintainer for Gerrit Code Review and Project Lead for Eclipse JGit and EGit. Based in Mannheim, he blends deep backend expertise—demonstrated by upgrading JGit within the high-profile Gerrit repository—with long-standing governance roles such as representing SAP on the Eclipse Foundation Board. His work spans Gardener and Kubernetes ecosystems, and he brings product and development experience from SAP where he served as Product Owner and earlier as a software engineer. A physicist by training, Matthias pairs rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic project stewardship, often surfacing subtle improvements like gitconfig caching and archival fixes that boost large-scale developer workflows.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PHD, Experimental Physics, PHD, Experimental Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
jgit10
code-review9
version-control9
git9
egit6
merge6
git-stash6
eclipse6
gerrit6
ssh6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
GerritCodeReview/gerrit
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Gerrit Code Review - (mirror of https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on upgrading the JGit library within the Gerrit Code Review repository, updating it to several newer versions. Their work involved incorporating improvements from the new JGit releases, including enhancements to file store attributes, user and system level gitconfig caching, and fixes for archival command issues. The user also addressed code related to the rebase and review functionalities within the Gerrit platform.
reviewgerrit
atlassian/org.eclipse.jgit-atlassian
Oct 2009 - Dec 2014
Contributions:499 commits in 5 years 3 months
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