Holger Smolinski is a Senior Technical Expert at Bosch working on the corporate software framework. At first hand, he is the Co-Lead of Bosch Open Source Program Office with additional assignments to sustainability topics and the software engineer career path. Before joining Bosch, he did his doctorate in theoretical physics, then became a developer in the core team that ported Linux to IBM mainframe systems and evolved his career as an internationally acknowledged specialist for application of IBM mainframe operating systems and virtualization technology.