Mirko Boehm
Senior Director, Community Development, Linux Foundation Europe
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMirko Boehm is a veteran open source leader and engineer with 27 years of experience who currently leads community development for the Linux Foundation in Europe, building bridges between industry, volunteers and the public sector. He combines deep technical roots—authoring core KDE components like the ThreadWeaver scheduler and long experience with Qt/C++—with strategic roles in open source governance, including work at the Open Invention Network and running an open source compliance practice. Mirko has founded and led engineering and consulting firms, scaled software organisations at MBition, and shaped policy and licensing efforts that protect Linux ecosystem projects. Based in Berlin with a doctorate in economics, he blends technical craftsmanship, business acumen and policy savvy to grow sustainable, community-driven software initiatives.
27 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Kaufmann Controlling Software Engineering International Politics, Diplom-Kaufmann Controlling Software Engineering International Politics at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr HamburgDr. rer. oec. Economics, Dr. rer. oec. Economics at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
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Github Skills (66)
wxwidgets10
sarif9
linux9
windows9
cross-platform9
docker8
php8
kubernetes8
security7
javascript7
go7
cooperation7
compliance7
eclipse6
collaboration6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mirkoboehm/OrgModeParser
Mar 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 9 years 5 months
endocode/databranches
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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