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Gerd Pruessmann


Date Joined
March 23, 2013


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Statement of Interest

use, support, research and develop further openstack and the cloud ecosystem

Bio
Gerd Prüßmann is a technical leader and CTO at Cloud Ace GmbH. He became an Openstack user and supporter back when Openstack Cactus was released. Gerd led developers' teams implementing Openstack and CEPH based production platforms since 2012. He is one of the Forces behind the German "Openstack DACH day" initiative. Gerd has a ~40 years track record in management, IT, software development and cloud computing. Prior to Cloud Ace, Gerd led technology creating companies, departments and teams and built up top engineering, operations and DevOps teams. He managed technology projects across various branches such as consumer goods, services sector, media and television, internet business, healthcare, transportation, construction, financial, biotech, industry and logistics.
Affiliations
  • Cloud Ace GmbH - From 2023-08-23 (Current)
  • T-Systems International GmbH - From 2015-09-24 To 2016-03-14
  • Deutsche Telekom AG - From 2015-04-08 To 2015-09-23
  • Deutsche Telekom - From 2012-06-01 To 2015-04-03

OpenStack Summit Presentations
2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe
  • Breaking Free from Cloud Vendor Lock-in: Building Digital Sovereignty with Container-Based Abstraction Layers on Hybridcloud
Barcelona, Spain Austin

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