Lars Klevan
Principal Full-Stack Engineer at BetterUp
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolLars Klevan is a Principal Full-Stack Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance web applications, currently shaping architecture and delivery at BetterUp. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, SQL tuning, caching, and high-availability deployments, with deep experience in social and real-time web platforms dating back to Socialcast and VMware. Lars blends hands-on backend performance work—from HTTP caching at Oracle to scalable e-commerce services at Digital River—with front-end polish using jQuery and realtime patterns. He has entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder/CTO focused on embedding structured decision-making into messaging platforms, giving him product-minded technical leadership. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs long-term systems thinking with a knack for squeezing latency and cost out of production environments.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Brown UniversitySPAContinuing Education, Computer Science, Continuing Education, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (85)
slack-bot10
websocket10
data-loading10
websocket-client10
slack-api10
ember-cli-addon10
slack10
fetch10
reactive9
javascript9
sdk9
error-handler9
ember9
stacktrace9
ember-addon9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
larsklevan/attachment_fu_app_engine
Aug 2008 - Mar 2019
An AttachmentFu storage backend which uses Google App Engine for storage and image processing
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 10 years 9 months
google-appstorage-backendapp-enginegoogle-app-enginebackend
larsklevan/node-slack-client
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
client-librarynode-jsslackslack-clientnodejs
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