Michael Tiemann
Startup Mentor at OS-Climate
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tiemann is an open-source pioneer and seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience building and commercializing free software, from founding Cygnus Solutions to shaping Red Hat’s open source strategy as VP of Open Source Affairs. He now applies that deep technical and policy expertise to climate and startup ecosystems—leading projects at OS-Climate and mentoring Kiwi startups at the Ministry of Awesome—while also running a carbon-neutral recording studio. His work bridges engineering, governance, and market strategy, with a track record of launching industry-defining open source business models and large collaborative data initiatives debuted at forums like COP26. Based in Wellington, he combines academic rigor from Stanford and Penn with hands-on product and community leadership, and maintains unexpected pursuits such as a second-degree blackbelt in To-Shin Do Ninjutsu.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of Pennsylvania2nd-Degree Blackbelt To-Shin Do Ninjutsu, 2nd-Degree Blackbelt To-Shin Do Ninjutsu at Chapel Hill Quest CenterPh. D Candidate Electrical Engineering, Ph. D Candidate Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
French
Stackoverflow
261reputation
8kreached
12answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
databases10
differentiation10
platform-specific10
flask10
pandas10
github-desktop10
trinodb10
sql10
science10
database10
data-science10
typescript10
analytics10
data-structure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelTiemann/pint
Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
Operate and manipulate physical quantities in Python
Contributions:49 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonbootstrappingoperatephysicalphysical-quantities
os-climate/os_c_data_commons
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
Repository for Data Commons platform architecture overview, as well as developer and user documentation
Contributions:1 review, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
commonsuser-documentationdata-commonsdeploymentplatform-specific
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