Michael Klein
Founder at EffectiveEmber
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Klein is a founder and seasoned front-end engineer with 15 years of experience building and consulting for international infrastructure providers from his base in Bavaria. He founded EffectiveEmber to help teams ship Ember.js applications faster and more reliably, drawing on prior leadership as Head of Web Frontend at Runtastic. Michael is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like HashiCorp’s Consul and Nomad, where he focuses on UI/UX improvements, feature-flagged workflows, and pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and operator experience. His work spans full-stack deployment tooling—authoring adaptable Ember CLI deploy adapters—and nuanced front-end concerns such as namespace routing and searchable admin partitions. Combining a Master’s in Business Informatics with hands-on product and consulting experience, he brings both technical depth and a practical, cost-conscious approach to building user-centric infrastructure tooling.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Informatics, Master's degree, Business Informatics at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
German, English, French
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
testing10
ember-cli10
ui-design10
uid10
emberjs10
aws10
front-end-development10
amazon-s310
ember-testing10
html10
aws-s310
nodejs10
s3-bucket10
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ember-cli-deploy/ember-cli-deploy
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
A deployment pipeline for Ember CLI apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 87 commits, 45 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's primary contribution revolves around enhancing the asset deployment pipeline for Ember CLI applications. They developed an adapter layer to support various asset upload strategies, with a focus on an S3 adapter. The commits show implementation and testing of the S3 adapter, along with refactoring the asset upload process and adding flexibility for different environments. The user also made adjustments to the default behavior, syncing the entire dist folder for flexibility with Ember CLI addons.
ember-cliember-addonpipelinedeployment-pipelinedeployment
hashicorp/consul
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 146 commits, 67 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Consul UI. Their work involved upgrading Ember composable helpers, replacing the `contains-helper` with the `includes` helper. The user also implemented a feature-flagged peering MVP, including the addition of a peers route and UI components, and styling with Tailwind CSS. Furthermore, the user addressed code improvements related to the visual display and filtering within the UI, such as display of peer information in the nodes.show view and making services searchable by admin-partition.
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