Maik Außendorf

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Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Maik Außendorf is a Bergisch Gladbach–based technology consultant, entrepreneur and former Bundestag member with a Diplom in Mathematics and Computer Science and a diploma thesis on artificial neural networks. He co-founded open‑source firms including dass IT and Bareos, where he helped build the only 100% open‑source professional backup solution, grew its international partner network and personally contributed backend fixes and a Percona plugin integration. After early roles at Siemens (including a year in Colombia) and SUSE, he combined hands‑on engineering with product and business leadership as managing director until entering federal politics in 2021. In parliament he served as digital policy spokesman, sat on committees for digitisation and the economy, and was appointed to advisory boards at the Bundesnetzagentur and the Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft. Now working as a freelance consultant, he bridges open‑source engineering, telecoms regulation and green economic policy to help translate technical detail into scalable public and commercial infrastructure.

12 years of coding experience

22 years of employment as a software developer

Diplom-Mathematiker, Diplom-Mathematiker at Universität Münster

Abitur, Abitur at Immanuel Kant Gymnasium, Münster

Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematics and Computer Science, Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematics and Computer Science at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / University of Muenster

English, Spanish, German, Italian

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Github Skills (8)

python10

plugin-development9

mysql8

archiving8

postgresql7

file-systems7

file-system7

database-administration7

Programming languages (3)

C++ShellPython

Github contributions (5)

bareos/bareos

May 2013 - Dec 2020

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:

Backend Developer

Contributions:21 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Maik primarily contributed to the Bareos backup solution by fixing issues related to error messages and option parsing. They addressed a cryptic error message in the BAT component and corrected the option parser for restore options. Additionally, the user integrated a Percona plugin, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the system's functionality.

pythonbareoscephbackup-solutionbackup

bareos/bareos-contrib

Sep 2014 - Apr 2020

External contributions of unsupported code and scripts

Contributions:62 commits, 28 PRs, 47 pushes in 5 years 8 months

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