Adrian started his open source career as a developer of the first ripping tool for the KDE desktop (Krabber). In '99 SUSE hired him to be their Linux Desktop guy, so he spent the next couple of years taking care of the KDE desktop of the different SUSE Linux distributions. During that time he gathered a lot of knowledge about building software packages for consumer and enterprise customers. Which eventually lead him to his current position as project manager for the SUSE and openSUSE build infrastructure.

When he's not out sailing or hiking and taking great pictures of it, you will most likely catch him thinking about the future of OBS, creating great concepts and taking care of the reference servers for openSUSE/SUSE.

Michael, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the famous University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, is another FOSS old-timer in the team. Most hackers probably know him as one of the GNU screen maintainers, perl guru and dependency solver expert. Even before the inauguration of the Open Build Service Michael worked on the SUSE internal OBS predecessor autobuild which means he brings more than 10 years of experience in developing build system backends to the table! At SUSE Michael shares the role of project manager for the SUSE and openSUSE build infrastructure with Adrian.

Apart from expanding the OBS backend with all kinds of cool features and taking care of the reference server backend, cooking good food and gaming make Michael a happy man.

After years of being the source maintainer of the KDE desktop environment (over 6 million lines of code and more than 1800 contributors) and being the release manager of two different GNU/Linux distributions (Caldera and openSUSE) Stephan "Coolo" Kulow knows what makes maintainers of huge projects tick and uses that knowledge to make the OBS better suited for this job.

As a father of two, passionate gamer of project manager games (Diabolo, Age of Empires) and football statistics freak Coolo obviously likes to guard a sack of fleas. And as the openSUSE Release Manager he is deemed by us our most important user. If you know Coolo it won't surprise you that he won't be reduced to using OBS and takes action with hacking the web client, API and other components to make his work easier.

Marcus is currently getting his education in computer science at the University of Paderborn. When he's not busy with lectures, writing papers and enjoying the sweet student life he is taking care of the OBS command line client and library. His participation in the Free and Open Source community sparked as packager for the PackMan project, a 3rd party application repository for SUSE/openSUSE distributions.

As the only guy not well in his thirties and with full hair he proudly represents the next generation of Open Build Service hackers.

Sascha was SUSEs first new hire to work on the OBS, especially the frontend. He started out as a Trolltech intern and quikly became, like so many people, involved with the KDE community. He started to put together the awesome Kigo GO game and worked on several KDE sub-systems. Once at SUSE Sascha developed a keen eye for all the nitty gritty details of todays wonderful world of frontend development.

Mostly you'll observe him working on the OBS concepts and refactoring the webui, when he's not busy with his new dayjob at the awesome SUSE CLOUD team, filling his last.fm profile or cuddling with his offspring.

Henne is the newest addition to the OBS team. Previously fully engaged in the openSUSE project as founding and board member, admin and infrastructure hacker, marketing fumbler and packager he brings the experience of building an open source project from the ground up. Henne can also draw upon a 10+ year career working for SUSE as package maintainer and project manager.

You will see him beefing up the OBS web client, project resources, documentation and promotion when he's not out viciously supporting his hometown football club S.V. Werder Bremen, hiking the alps or exploring the breweries of the franconian switzerland.