Claus Witt
CTO at Fliva
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolClaus Witt is a pragmatic CTO with 15+ years of hands-on engineering and architectural leadership, currently building scalable video rendering, transcoding and hosting platforms at Fliva. He codes daily in C, C++, Ruby, Go, Elm and JavaScript and prioritizes developer productivity and low-friction delivery over meetings. Previously he led teams and built cloud video-generation, BPM and hosting systems at Arnsbo Media and founded the Aarhus JS meetup community, showing a mix of engineering craft and community stewardship. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed plugins and integrations to the widely used ohmyzsh project, reflecting a taste for practical tooling that improves developer workflows. Colocated in Central Denmark, he’s known for running “secret projects” and favoring email over noisy LinkedIn threads when you need his attention.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasie Matematisk linie, Gymnasie Matematisk linie at Ribe KatedralskoleValdemarskolenHøjskole, Højskole at Rønshoved HøjskoleHF, HF at Ribe StatsseminariumMMD, MMD at Erhvervs Akademi Vest
English, Danish, German
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Github Skills (29)
oh-my-zsh10
plugin-development10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
plugin10
zshrc10
shell10
ant10
zsh10
cli10
command-line-interface9
application-framework9
git9
plug9
app-framework9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Claus contributed to the `ohmyzsh` project by adding and modifying Zsh plugin files. Their work primarily focused on creating new plugins (phing, ant) and updating existing ones (lighthouse). Additionally, they integrated external code and performed merges, updating the codebase by incorporating changes from other repositories.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
ArnsboMedia/omniauth-twitter
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
OmniAuth strategy for Twitter
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
omniauth-strategyomniauthstrategytwitter-apitwitter
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