Volker Theile
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Fellbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVolker Theile is a senior software engineer based in Fellbach, Germany, with 15 years of professional experience and a long track record as an open-source maintainer and founder (openmediavault). He blends low-level systems and networking expertise (C/Linux, daemons, kernel patches, 10GbE) with modern cloud-native and full‑stack development—leading UI work on Ceph (Aquarium/Bubbles, Ceph Dashboard) and building S3 admin UIs with Angular, TypeScript and FastAPI. At SUSE he extended cephadm for custom containers, created CI/CD and containerized deployments (podman/Buildah, Docker, Helm) and implemented monitoring integrations including an SNMP bridge for Prometheus Alertmanager and Grafana dashboards. As founder of openmediavault he shaped a Debian-based NAS platform used by homes and small offices, contributing backend fixes and system configuration improvements. He’s notable for bridging consumer NAS and enterprise distributed storage domains, shipping production-ready integrations across Kubernetes, Rancher and Longhorn.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Informatics, Diplom-Ingenieur, Informatics at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
German, English
Github Skills (30)
typescript310
ui-d10
javascript10
dashboard10
debian10
typescript10
typescript210
samba10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend-development10
angular10
debug9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:299 reviews, 480 commits, 410 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Volker Theile's contributions focused primarily on the Ceph Dashboard, demonstrating a strong emphasis on frontend development. He implemented and maintained various user interface elements, including form components, tables, and directives. Volker also addressed bugs, implemented new features, and improved the overall user experience through code refactoring and accessibility improvements. Furthermore, he worked on documentation and unit tests, indicating a commitment to code quality and maintainability.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
votdev/harvester
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software
Contributions:120 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 1 month
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