Kristian Klette
Programmer at Cardboard
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKristian Klette is a pragmatic software developer and engineering leader with 19 years of experience building reliable systems across Python, Perl, Linux, and PostgreSQL. He has progressed from hands-on developer and consultant roles to senior engineering leadership at Otovo, where he moved from senior developer to VP of Engineering, and now returns to individual contributor work at Cardboard. Kristian contributes to notable open-source projects like Mopidy, adding hardware integration and thread-safe audio control features for Denon mixers, reflecting a knack for low-level robustness as well as high-level architecture. Based in Oslo with an MSc in Informatics from NTNU, he blends best-practice engineering, production-ready scripting, and pragmatic system administration experience. Colleagues describe him as detail-focused and practical—someone who turns messy real-world constraints into maintainable, well-tested solutions.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer science, BCS Computer science at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (7)
mopidy10
serial-communication10
python10
testing9
unit-test9
unit-testing9
logging7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mopidy/mopidy
Mar 2010 - Jun 2010
Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the `mopidy/mopidy` project by implementing features related to controlling external Denon mixers, including reading and setting volume. They added support for querying volume levels from the Denon devices and refactored the code to ensure thread-safety and proper variable types. Their work involved substantial changes to the `denon.py` module, demonstrating a focus on hardware integration and audio control functionality.
pythonmopidymusic-serverextensiblemusic
klette/pyroutes
Jun 2009 - Feb 2012
Contributions:236 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
web-applicationspythonpython-webrapid-developmentframework
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