Tom Klingenberg
CTO at lastflood GmbH
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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RockstarTom Klingenberg is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of professional software experience, based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area. He combines hands-on backend engineering in PHP and DevOps with strategic product and consultancy work for business aviation through Centre of Gravity GmbH, while also running entrepreneurial ventures including lastflood GmbH. An active open-source contributor, Tom has improved core PHP tooling and developer workflows—contributions to high-profile projects like Composer and PHP-CS-Fixer demonstrate his attention to compatibility, testing, and reproducible builds. His background spans deep technical craftsmanship (Magento tooling, CI/CD optimization, build reproducibility) and creative practice as a freelance artist, reflecting an unusual blend of precision engineering and visual creativity.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (34)
dependency-manager10
git10
static-analysis10
python10
back-end-development10
mysql10
code-standards10
bash10
travis-ci10
software-quality10
magento10
phpunit10
php10
build-automation10
linter10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
netz98/n98-magerun2
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 350 commits, 67 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to improving the build process and infrastructure of the project. They streamlined the build procedure on Travis, adding support for MySQL 5.6 and PHP 7 linting, improving the phar-file creation and setting timestamps for reproducible builds. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the installation process, including errors in the Magento repository, and optimized the project for continuous integration and code coverage with CircleCI.
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netz98/n98-magerun
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 503 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on back-end development tasks, focusing on improving the Magento 1 platform. Their contributions include adding a WindowsSystem utility, modifying file system operations, enhancing the install command, and resolving several code style and PHP compatibility issues. The changes span multiple files within the project, indicating a broad understanding of the codebase and its functionalities. Additionally, the user was involved in correcting string comparisons and fixing issues related to cron expression parsing.
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