Tim Kleinschmidt
Full Stack Engineer at machtfit GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarTim Kleinschmidt is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web and application software. Since 2014 he has been driving full-stack development at machtfit GmbH, combining backend robustness with frontend polish to deliver reliable products. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical improvements to the popular Qtile window manager—fixing installers, modernizing code, and enhancing widgets—demonstrating attention to detail across tooling and user-facing features. Tim is comfortable refactoring legacy code, streamlining dependencies, and improving documentation, which reflects a pragmatic approach to long-lived codebases. Colleagues know him for steadily shipping incremental improvements that reduce maintenance burden while improving usability.
15 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
window-manager10
documentation10
widgets9
web-widgets9
sphinx9
configuration-file8
configuration-management8
configurations8
wms7
x117
wayland7
command-line6
gunicorn6
django-allauth6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
qtile/qtile
Feb 2015 - May 2016
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 24 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the Qtile window manager project by fixing bugs, improving documentation, and enhancing the codebase. Their work included updating installation instructions and fixing links in the documentation, as well as fixing `setup.py` and removing python2.6 checks. Additionally, they added features to the battery widget, refactored and improved code style, and streamlined the project by updating dependencies and removing unnecessary imports.
full-featuredpythonx11qtilekde-plasma
Azd325/sublime-text-caniuse
Dec 2011 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 3 months
csscss-propertycheckingsublimesublime-text
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