Kurt Garloff
Angestellt, CTO Sovereign Cloud Stack, OSB Alliance e.V.
Köln, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Kurt Garloff
Current 3 years and 7 months, since Apr 2021
CTO Sovereign Cloud Stack
OSB Alliance e.V.
Current 4 years and 7 months, since Apr 2020
Leader
Sovereign Cloud Stack
Current 10 years and 10 months, since Jan 2014
Consultant
Kurt Garloff IT Consulting
1 year and 2 months, Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
VP Engineering Software Defined Infrastructure
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbHLeadership for SUSE's Cloud, Storage and Infrastructure Engineering teams.
Heading Architecture and Community team for our Open Telekom Cloud engineering organization.
2 years and 8 months, Apr 2016 - Nov 2018
OpenStack Cloud Architect
T-Systems International GmbH.
7 months, Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
OpenStack Cloud Architect
T-Systems International GmbH
2 years and 2 months, Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Strategy, Technology and Engineering Consulting
Kurt Garloff IT Consulting
Building a cloud engineering team in Europe. Consulting to build out the open source and OpenStack strategy, tieing the development efforts to the community.
My department is responsible for the architecture, the implementation and involved with the operation of the platform and infrastructure for hosting 3rd party SaaS applications on TelekomCloud's BusinessMarketplace as well as developing the Mediencenter cloud storage/sharing platform. I built teams for successfully developing, tailoring and operating our OpenStack based infrastructure and lead them.
6 months, May 2011 - Oct 2011
VP Partner Engineering
SUSE (Attachmate Group)
Running engineering teams that work closely with technology partners to orchestrate the co-development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Platform, to ensure hardware enablement, certification and supportability and maintainability. Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role.
2 years and 3 months, Feb 2009 - Apr 2011
VP OPS Partner Engineering
Novell
Running engineering teams that work closely with technology partners to orchestrate the co-development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Platform, to ensure hardware enablement, certification and supportability and maintainability. Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role, most importantly with SAP.
6 months, Sep 2008 - Feb 2009
VP Business Development (OPS)
SUSE Linux Products GmbH (A Novell Business)
Identify and analyze partnership and M&A opportunities that create added value for our customers. Negotiate the terms and drive them through the corporate acceptance process. Drive projects with a few select partners in an exec sponsorship role, most importantly with SAP. Lead Strategy development project for the BU that shapes our appliance and cloud strategy.
1 year and 6 months, Apr 2007 - Sep 2008
VP Product Management (Global Opportunities)
Novell Inc
Working on strategic global opportunities that bring SUSE Linux into new spaces. Special assignment to move the relationship with SAP to the next level.
8 months, Aug 2006 - Mar 2007
Acting VP OPS Engineering
Novell
Responsible for the SUSE R&D team inside Novell's Open Platforms Solutions Business Unit (leading 200+ engineers and managing associated budget). Received signature authority.
6 months, Feb 2006 - Jul 2006
Linux R&D Head Architect (Director)
Novell
Design processes, projects and product features suitable for a company in the open source ecosystem.
2 years and 2 months, Jan 2004 - Feb 2006
Director SUSE Labs
SUSE Linux Products GmbH, A Novell Business
SUSE Labs contains numerous engineers in the areas Linux Kernel (VM, I/O, x86-64, ALSA, Input, Filesystems, ...), Toolchain/Compiler (gcc), X11, KDE and with the addition of the Immunix team and the Security team also developers in the security area. Introduce team structure and pass some responsibility to team leaders. - Encourage participation in open source forums - Internal exchange (Labs conference), with varying hardware partner sponsorships - Prepare and maintain base packages [...]
1 year and 1 month, Jan 2003 - Jan 2004
Director SUSE Labs
SUSE Linux AG
SUSE Labs is a set of great engineers in the open source area. Various kernel engineers and toolchain/gcc developers. - Team building - Internal conferences and Open Source events participation - Development Projects - Delivery, maintenance and support of software components for SUSE Linux / SLES; take over responsibility for kernel and compiler.
3 years and 2 months, Dec 1999 - Jan 2003
Research assistant
TU Eindhoven
Numerical Modeling of Plasmas used for EUV production (ETP/EPG, Dr. J. v.d. Mullen, Prof. Dr. D.C. Schram). PhD not completed.
3 years and 6 months, Jul 1999 - Dec 2002
Kernel engineer
SUSE Linux GmbH
Working on kernel and security related projects.
Educational background for Kurt Garloff
1 month, Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Business Management
Harvard Business School
Program for Leadership Development (M5): Negotiation, Innovation, Sustainability. Authentic Leadership Development.
9 months, Dec 2007 - Aug 2008
Business Managment
Harvard Business School
Strategy analysis, development and execution. Financial Management, Sales Management, Branding & Marketing, Customer Management. Macroeconomics. Team building, leading; team dynamics and leadership skills. Self-management. Leadership presence. Leadership Assessment and Coaching. Change management.
3 years and 3 months, Nov 1999 - Jan 2003
Physics
Einhoven University of Technology
Research on computational plasma physics Modelling Light sources for EUV Lithography. PhD not completed.
6 years and 3 months, Oct 1992 - Dec 1998
Physics
Dortmund University,
Solid state physics, computational plasma physics
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
French
Basic
Dutch
Basic