As Vice President of Engineering for SUSE, Ralf Flaxa is responsible for leading the team of engineers that develop SUSE Linux solutions.

Flaxa joined and contributed to the Linux community since late 1991 and has over 15 years of international management experience working for global organizations building Linux products. In 2002 he joined SUSE and later Novell where he held various engineering management roles related to the delivery of SUSE Linux solutions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE.

He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.