Felix Kronlage-Dammers
Education
2023
CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Scrum Alliance
2023
ACSPO - Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Scrum Alliance
2017
AEVO - Trainer Aptitude Examination
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry Oldenburg
2001 - 2008
Studies in Computer Science
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
- Studies in Computer Science without degree
- Minor subjects: Physics and Education
1999
University Entrance Qualification (Abitur)
Integrierte Gesamtschule Roderbruch, Hannover
- Graduated with university entrance qualification
1996/1997
Student Exchange Year
Amador High School, California, U.S.A.
- Attended 11th grade
Awards
2005
Gründercampus Niedersachsen
- Award for the product idea cryptorage
Talks
Professional Experience
since 08/2026
Country Manager, Adfinis GmbH
- Managing Director of Adfinis Germany
01/2025 - 09/2026
Head of SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.
- Leading the Forum SCS-Standards
01/2025 - 05/2026
Project Lead ECO:DIGIT, OSB Alliance e.V.
- Responsible project lead for ECO:DIGIT at OSBA
02/2022 - 12/2024
Product Owner IaaS & Operations SCS, OSB Alliance e.V.
- Product Owner for IaaS (Reference Implementation) and Operations of the Sovereign Cloud Stack
09/2021 - 12/2022
Co-Founder Naturküste GmbH
09/2021 - 06/2022
Head of Development, gridscale GmbH
- Responsible for the technical advancement of the gridscale platform
10/2017 - 12/2021
Advisor, homevoice GmbH
- Mentor & advisor to the founders and management
12/2019 - 08/2021
Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer, gridscale GmbH
- Responsible for the technical business area of gridscale
- Product Management
- Product Development
- Operations of the gridscale platform
04/2019 - 11/2019
Chief Operating Officer, gridscale GmbH
- Member of the executive management
- Responsible for the development of the gridscale software stack
10/2018 - 03/2019
Product Owner, gridscale GmbH
- Product Owner for the gridscale software stack
01/2018 - 05/2018
Cloud Software Architect, otris Software AG
- Delivering otris Software AG products as public and private cloud offerings
03/2003 - 12/2017
Managing Partner, bytemine GmbH
- Managing Partner
- Trainer for IT specialists (Fachinformatiker)
2003 - 2005
Freelance Author
Freelance author for various publications, including
- Linux Magazin
- freeX
2005 - 2013
Open Source Developer, OpenBSD
- Contributor to the open source project OpenBSD
2004
Moderator Open Source BOFH, WWDC 2004
- Moderation of the Birds-of-a-Feather Session “Open Source and Apple”
2002 - 2005
Open Source Developer, OpenDarwin
- Contributor to the open source project OpenDarwin
- Project Lead DarwinPorts
- Release Engineer OpenDarwin Releases
01/2003 - 12/2004
Technical Assistant, Unix, Carl von Ossietzky University
- Technical Assistant Unix
- Porting software from Linux to FreeBSD
2000/2001
Computer Scientist, Mediafarm GmbH, Basel
- Establishing ISP services (web hosting, e-mail, dial-up)
- Java/PHP software development
1998 - 2009
cid.net, Berlin
- Contributor as Unix engineer
1999/2000
Community Service, Jugendwerkstatt, Hameln
- Community service in the mobile outreach group
Volunteer Work
OSB Alliance
since 2016
Board Member, OSB Alliance
2015 - 2019
Speaker TF-OSBAR
- Organizers of the OSBAR (since 2014)
since 2015
Working Groups / Task Forces
- Participation in various Working Groups and Task Forces of the OSB Alliance
- Deputy Speaker WG Marketing
German Unix User Group (GUUG)
since 10/2024
Board Member
OpenInfra Foundation
2023 - 2025
Co-Chair Public-Cloud Special Interest Group
Sea-Watch e.V.
since 2022
Member of Sea-Watch e.V.
since 2021
Member of the IT Team
Miscellaneous
2016 - 2018
Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage, Kiel
- Contributed to the organization of the Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage
2015/2016
Refugee Café Arche
- Provided the café with Freifunk (community wifi)
- Volunteered at the refugee café
2010 - 2016
Linux Informationstage, Oldenburg
- Contributed to the organization of the Linux Informationstage Oldenburg
Memberships
since 2025
Zentrum für politische Schönheit e.V.
- Supporting member
since 2022
Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung
- Member of FIfF e.V.
since 2021
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V.
- Supporting member
since 2019
Sea-Watch e.V.
- Supporting member
since 2009
CCC e.V.
- Member of CCC e.V.
2014 - 2024
DigitalCourage e.V.
- Supporting member
2012 - 2024
Freifunk Nordwest e.V., Oldenburg
- Member of Freifunk Nordwest
What else?
- Married, father of one son
- Enjoy spending time outdoors
- Endurance sports (road cycling)
- Hiking and camping
- Ecological, economical, and sustainable thinking and acting
- Alternative mobility
- Mindful nutrition
- (Correspondence) chess
- Music on vinyl
- Avid podcast listener