Lars Kiesow
Site Reliability Engineer at Universität Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolLars Kiesow is a Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient, secure deployments and automations for academia and open-source projects from Osnabrück, Germany. He combines hands-on SRE and DevOps work—improving high availability, cloud deployments and security—with leadership experience establishing R&D teams and coordinating international open-source communities. A security-aware software engineer and occasional lecturer, he contributes front-end accessibility and usability improvements to projects like the self-hosted audiobookshelf, showing an eye for user-facing details as well as backend robustness. Comfortable straddling architecture, operations and community coordination, he repeatedly turns complex academic and nonprofit requirements into maintainable, open solutions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universität Osnabrück
German, English
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Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
html9
css9
python6
jekyll6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
advplyr/audiobookshelf
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 38 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily contributed to the front-end of the audiobookshelf project, enhancing the user interface and accessibility. Their work included adding tooltips to improve usability, making tooltips accessible for screen readers, and fixing issues related to keyboard navigation and settings accessibility. Additionally, they addressed minor backend issues, such as ensuring HTTPS usage for Google Books images and improving the handling of series in the "Continue Series" feature.
audiobookspodcasthostedself-hostingaudiobookshelf
lkiesow/librply
Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
file-formatc-libraryplyrplyansi-c
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