Contributing to a better future

Open Source Program Office

At Aiven, we want to contribute back to the open source community. To do that, we created an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) – a dedicated team to focus on maintaining the projects businesses around the world depend on.

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Open source program office at work

What’s an Open Source Program Office?

The Aiven OSPO makes sure that the projects we offer as managed services are well maintained. We not only take care of Aiven's OSS projects, we also keep a watchful eye on all open source projects that impact Aiven, actively collaborating with external contributors.

Our OSPO team also promotes open source processes and philosophy throughout all our teams at Aiven, helping us all adopt a mindset and environment where we can all contribute to the open source community.

What does OSPO do?

From encouraging open source practices to helping set up and maintain new Aiven-owned OSS projects, the OSPO team is at the heart of everything open source at Aiven.

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Contribute

Our team makes daily contributions to major projects and related projects in their ecosystem.

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Maintain

We make sure that critical open source projects are in good shape – both for Aiven and others.

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Collaborate

We collaborate with external contributors to keep projects and collaborations running smoothly.

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Promote

Our OSPO team also promotes open source processes and philosophy at Aiven and elsewhere.

Open source contributions

OSPO’s open source projects

Check out the projects our team is currently contributing to – and contribute yourself at Github.

Apache Kafka®

A backup and restore tool for Apache Kafka clusters. It is designed to continuously stream Kafka topics into persistent/object storages such as S3, and provides tools for restoring backups.

Apache Kafka®

Klaw, the latest OS tool by Aiven, helps enterprises cope with Kafka topics, schema registry and connectors governance by introducing roles/authorizations to users and teams.

Aiven’s OSPO team

Meet the team keeping the code alive

Josep Prat
Josep Prat

Open Source Engineering Director, Aiven

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Ahmed Sobeh

Engineering Manager OSPO

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    Mirjam Aulbach

    Senior Software Engineer

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      Muralidhar Basani

      Staff Software Engineer

        Chris Egerton
        Chris Egerton

        Staff Open Source Developer

          Greg Harris
          Greg Harris

          Senior Software Engineer

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            Aindriú Lavelle

            Senior Software Engineer

              Maxim Muzafarov
              Maxim Muzafarov

              Senior Software Engineer

                Andriy Redko
                Andriy Redko

                Staff Software Engineer

                  Ryan Skraba
                  Ryan Skraba

                  Staff Software Engineer

                    Lukáš Vlček
                    Lukáš Vlček

                    Staff Software Engineer

                      Claude Warren Jr.
                      Claude Warren Jr.

                      Senior Software Engineer

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                        Kevin Webber

                        Engineering Manager

                          Mikhail Koviazin
                          Mikhail Koviazin

                          Senior Software Engineer

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                          Jean-François Gagné

                          Senior Software Engineer

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                          Get in touch with OSPO

                          Got a project you need help to maintain?
                          Want to discuss a collaboration?
                          Looking for advice?

                          We’d love to hear from you.

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