Philipp Storz
Managing Director, Bareos GmbH & Co. KG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Storz is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and managing director with over 13 years leading Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and long-standing executive experience at dass IT GmbH. Trained as a Diplom-Informatiker in Technical Informatics, he combines hands-on back-end and DevOps expertise with strategic product leadership in open-source backup software. As a core contributor to the widely used Bareos project, he has driven Windows installer improvements, networking and TLS tests, and Percona XtraBackup integration—work that ties product direction to real-world reliability. Based in Cologne, he blends engineering depth from early consulting and development roles with practical company-building instincts, often tackling tricky interoperability and deployment issues others leave undocumented.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom-Informatiker, Technische Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker, Technische Informatik at Fachhochschule Köln
German, English, Spanish, French, Russian
Github Skills (9)
cicd9
testing9
python8
postgresql8
documentation7
network-configuration7
bash7
debian-packaging6
mysql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bareos/bareos
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
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:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 975 reviews, 3507 commits in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Philipp contributed to the Bareos project by making changes to the Windows installer, including removing or updating dependencies for the GUI, and adapted the documentation for the changes. They also addressed issues such as a crash in the director during manual configuration. Furthermore, the user added specific tests related to networking and enhanced the tests with TLS and also added a new testcase to the system tests. The user also implemented fixes related to the Percona XtraBackup plugin and the directory configuration.
pythonbareoscephbackup-solutionbackup
pstorz/bareos
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Main repository with the code for the libraries and daemons
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 616 pushes in 5 years 6 months
daemonsdaemonlinuxsolarisinit
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