Kristian Kielhofner
Founder CTO At Tovera
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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RockstarKristian Kielhofner is a founder and CTO with 14 years of experience building scalable communications and embedded systems, currently leading Tovera. He previously co-founded Star2Star and architected the Constellation platform that scaled to over 500,000 endpoints and contributed to acquisitions totaling hundreds of millions. Kristian has deep expertise in VoIP, real-time video over Wi‑Fi, embedded Linux, and managing IP and open-source license compliance from hands-on engineering to product-scale operations. He ran patent and reverse-engineering engagements for mobile manufacturers and even experimented with large GPU clusters to explore blockchain and machine learning from the infrastructure level. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a track record of shipping mission-critical systems for healthcare and unified communications.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (100)
echo10
generative10
deep-learning10
esp3210
home-assistant10
google-home10
whisper10
speech-to-text10
privacy10
esp-idf10
speech-recognition10
home-automation9
text-to-speech9
pdf9
cuda9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
toverainc/willow-inference-server
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Open source, local, and self-hosted highly optimized language inference server supporting ASR/STT, TTS, and LLM across WebRTC, REST, and WS
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 111 pushes in 11 months
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kristiankielhofner/h2ogpt
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Private Q&A and summarization of documents+images or chat with local GPT, 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports LLaMa2, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/ https://codellama.h2o.ai/
Contributions:18 pushes in 1 month
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