Jan Klass is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience in backend development, server administration, and open-source collaboration, based in Offenburg, Germany. He combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity-driven mindset, contributing notably to projects like the low-latency voice chat client Mumble by improving German localization and user-facing strings. As a lead developer and FOSS contributor with a B.Sc., he bridges production-grade server work and community-driven projects, ensuring software is both reliable and accessible to German-speaking users. Colleagues know him for steady technical stewardship, attention to internationalization details, and a habit of improving developer- and user-facing documentation behind the scenes.
Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:78 reviews, 364 commits, 185 PRs in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan's contributions focus on translating and updating the German language strings for the Mumble project. They modified text files and code, adding translations and correcting existing ones. The changes primarily involve updating and correcting German translation strings within the MainWindow.ui files, and other miscellaneous related files. The user appears to be focused on improving the localization of the Mumble client for German-speaking users.
Contributions:202 commits, 9 PRs, 3144 pushes in 11 years 3 months
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