Stephan Dühr
Managing Director at Bareos GmbH & Co. KG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarStephan Dühr is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and managing director based in Cologne with over 11 years leading Bareos GmbH & Co. KG and two decades-plus running his own IT firm, dass IT. He combines hands-on engineering, DevOps and back-end expertise—particularly in open-source backup systems—with executive stewardship of product and company growth. His contributions to the well-known Bareos open-source backup project include bug fixes, cross-platform compatibility, database performance and multi-threading race condition work, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and maintainability. Early roles in consulting and support sharpened his customer-facing problem solving and operational skills, making him comfortable across technical, support and leadership domains. Notably, he blends long-term product ownership with active code-level improvements, a rare mix of director-level strategy and developer craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
archiving10
python10
backup10
plugin9
performance-optimization9
refactoring8
architectures8
database-design8
refactor8
architecture8
testing7
vmware7
documentation7
automations6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bareos/bareos
Sep 2014 - 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 Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 176 commits, 70 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:The user, Marco van Wieringen, primarily focused on enhancing the Bareos system. They contributed to code cleanup and ensured compliance with PEP8 standards, significantly improving code quality and maintainability. A key part of their work involved fixing bugs and optimizing components, including improving database performance and resolving race conditions in multi-threaded contexts. Furthermore, they were involved in making the code more compatible with different operating systems and improving the structure of the plugin framework.
pythonbareoscephbackup-solutionbackup
sduehr/bareos
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Main repository with the code for the libraries and daemons
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
daemonsolarislinuxdaemons
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