Till Krüss
Founder at CacheWerk
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Till Krüss is a founder and senior full-stack developer based in Nelson, BC, with 23 years of web experience and a decade-plus of focused product leadership. He builds high-performance WordPress tooling and PHP infrastructure—most notably Object Cache Pro, Relay for PHP, and widely used plugins like Email Address Encoder and Redis Object Cache powering hundreds of thousands of sites. A pragmatic performance engineer, Till contributes to core PHP ecosystems including Laravel and Predis, improving caching, Redis integrations and test reliability across popular projects. He blends hands-on engineering with product instincts from founding multiple companies, shipping tools that prioritize speed, reliability and developer ergonomics. Less obvious: his work spans both low-level Redis client optimizations and user-facing plugin UX, giving him a rare end-to-end view of web performance bottlenecks.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
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Github Skills (44)
debugging10
caching10
debug10
javascript10
redis10
laravel-mix10
testing10
wordpress10
app-framework10
object-oriented-programming10
laravel10
webpack10
phpunit10
devtools10
predis10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
rhubarbgroup/redis-cache
May 2015 - Jan 2023
A persistent object cache backend for WordPress powered by Redis. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 releases, 122 reviews, 844 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Till contributed to the core functionality of the Redis Object Cache WordPress plugin. Their commits focused on improving the implementation of the object cache, with changes to the method for checking the presence of objects within cache and adjusting the `set` method to add or replace values and to handle potential problems during connection and adding the possibility to work with multiple values at once. The user also improved the reliability of the code by correcting the type that is returned in the `get_multiple` method.
phpredissentinelspredispersistentcli
laravel/framework
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 releases, 17 reviews, 353 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Till primarily contributed to the Laravel framework, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to core functionality. Their commits addressed issues related to testing, authentication, and notifications, specifically fixing indentation, adding support for custom email addresses, and correcting line breaks in plain text emails. The user also made adjustments to database and Redis-related components, supporting PhpRedis and implementing fixes.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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