Kristian Klausen
Consultant at Arch Linux
Brande, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Klausen is a consultant and DevOps-savvy software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience delivering reliable infrastructure and backend systems from embedded builds to cloud-native proxies. Based in Brande, Denmark, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Traefik—improving backend routing and KV provider robustness—and has practical experience upgrading Kubernetes quickstarts and CoreDNS in bootkube. His background spans developer/sysadmin roles and system image tooling (OpenEmbedded), where he added systemd and TPM support and streamlined image creation workflows. At Energinet and Arch Linux he applies this blend of embedded, DevOps, and backend expertise to production-grade systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic bug fixes and configuration-level improvements that prevent subtle operational failures. He combines an AP Graduate in Computer Science with a track record of shipping tests and incremental fixes that harden complex deployments.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
AP Graduate in Computer Science, AP Graduate in Computer Science at Erhvervsakademi MidtVestHF Matematik B Samfundsfag B Fysik C Musik C, HF Matematik B Samfundsfag B Fysik C Musik C at Herning HF & VUC
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
cni10
build-system10
dockers10
flannel10
automation10
go10
yocto-project10
sys10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
embedded10
systemd10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/bootkube
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
This project now lives at https://github.com/kinvolk/bootkube
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 96 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kristian's contributions primarily involve modifying scripts related to the `quickstart` setup, specifically focusing on masking/unmasking `locksmithd`, and removing files. They also worked on bumping dependencies like the `etcd-operator` and `flannel-cni`, and upgrading the Kubernetes version. The user further implemented changes to the CNI configuration, enabled portmap by default, and updated the core DNS configuration, deploying CoreDNS instead of kube-dns.
vmskinvolkk8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclekuberneteskubernetes-setup
traefik/traefik
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 24 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily focused on backend improvements within the Traefik project, a cloud-native application proxy. Their contributions involved modifying the code to ensure the correct handling of weights in the configuration files, addressing a specific bug related to integer value usage. The user also made improvements to the KV provider, resolving issues with server URLs and the retrieval of backend configurations, adding tests to validate those improvements. The changes demonstrate a focus on the core functionality and data handling of the Traefik proxy, using Golang.
zookeeperproxyload-balancingreverse-proxymesos
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