Olaf Flebbe
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarOlaf Flebbe is a Software Architect with 14+ years of experience building robust backend and infrastructure solutions in the mechanical and industrial engineering domain, currently shaping architecture at Robert Bosch GmbH. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. in Computational Physics and blends scientific rigor with practical skills in Python, C++, Java, performance tuning, numerical simulation, and Debian-based systems. An active Apache Software Foundation member and long-time contributor and PMC to Apache Bigtop, he has hands-on experience improving big data build systems, deployment and Hadoop ecosystem integration. His background includes leading architecture teams and business units at science+computing and Atos, evidencing both strategic leadership and low-level engineering chops. Notably, he pairs deep academic training with pragmatic open-source stewardship—fixing build pipelines and disabling analytics to make complex data platforms production-ready.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
maven10
bigtop10
build-system10
hadoop10
devops10
java9
puppet9
puppeteer9
javas9
big-data9
debian8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bigtop
Jan 2015 - Sep 2020
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 195 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Olaf contributed to the Bigtop project by addressing missing files and patches related to Hue, a web interface. They modified configuration files to disable Google Analytics and enhance the Hue build process. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the Apache Tez framework, and updated Maven and Ant versions. These changes reflect a focus on build systems, deployment, and ensuring the proper operation of the Hadoop ecosystem components.
javaapachebig-databigtop
oflebbe/osm
Jun 2020 - Dec 2023
General purpose library for reading, writing and working with OpenStreetMap data
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches, 5 tags in 3 years 7 months
openstreetmapmap-matchingpurposeosmoverpass-api
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