Till Klocke
Senior Embedded Developer at B.E.G. Brück Electronic GmbH
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTill Klocke is a senior embedded and backend developer with 13 years of professional experience and over 20 years of personal tinkering across embedded, networking, and backend architectures. He has led IoT and building-automation projects end-to-end—co-founding IoT connctd and later shaping backend and architecture work at grandcentrix before joining B.E.G. Brück Electronic. Till combines hands-on firmware and OpenWRT experience (from public WiFi mesh and big-data projects) with Java backend contributions to notable open-source projects like openHAB, where he implemented device bindings and core transport enhancements. He also contributes full-stack improvements to self-hosted tools such as Linkwarden, improving import robustness and UX. Known as a "nerd by heart," he brings curiosity-driven engineering and a pragmatic focus on connectivity and openness to complex, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
TU Dortmund University
English, German
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
apidoc10
openhab10
typescript10
nextjs10
java10
javas10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
home-automation9
html8
osgi8
json7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab1-addons
Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
Add-ons for openHAB 1.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Till added custom bindings to the openHAB 1.x add-ons, including a new binding for FHT devices. These bindings were implemented in Java and involved changes to core binding components. The user's work included the creation of new classes, interactions with CUL devices, and the implementation of features to manage and send commands to FHT devices. Further, the user added javadoc to the CUL transport and FHT binding.
add-onsopenhabaddononsinternet-of-things
linkwarden/linkwarden
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
⚡️⚡️⚡️Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Till focused on implementing and improving the import functionality for the Linkwarden bookmark manager. Their primary contributions included adding support for importing bookmarks from Omnivore, HTML files, and Wallabag, modifying the existing import mechanisms to handle streams instead of text, and making the import process reusable. The changes involved updates to both front-end components (dashboard, settings) and back-end API routes to support the new import formats and handle file uploads. They refactored the import mechanism to improve performance and user experience.
reacthostedjavascriptexpressmern
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