Uwe Klotz
Software Engineer at HMI Project GmbH
Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolUwe Klotz is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a Dipl.-Inform. from Universität Karlsruhe, specializing in systems-level and backend development. He transitioned from C/C++ and Scala to champion Rust for writing safe, efficient, and reactive components that scale across cloud, container, and edge environments. Uwe has a strong open-source footprint, contributing to high-profile projects like tokio (improving core watch concurrency primitives) and Mixxx (backend refactors and FFMPEG fixes), demonstrating deep expertise in asynchronous and performance-critical code. His background spans solution architecture, consulting, and hands-on implementation across embedded, server, and tooling domains, blending pragmatic engineering with attention to resource-constrained deployments. Notably, he combines systems thinking with a developer-centric approach to microservices, favoring lightweight, low-resource components that simplify multi-core complexity.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Inform., Dipl. Inform. at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / University of Karlsruhe
German, English
Github Skills (27)
asynchronous10
c-language10
multithreading10
async10
testing10
io10
implement10
protocols10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
modbus10
concurrency10
ffmpeg9
networking9
refactor9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
slowtec/tokio-modbus
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
A tokio-based modbus library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 113 reviews, 163 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Uwe primarily contributed to the `tokio-modbus` library by implementing core functionalities related to Modbus protocol handling. Their work involved deriving traits for structs, adding regression tests, and fixing issues related to decoding incomplete RTU frames. Furthermore, the user reorganized and split files, and addressed buffer length checks to enhance the library's robustness and reliability. They also refactored and refomatted the code.
non-blockingrtuasciirustmodbus-library
mixxxdj/mixxx
Aug 2012 - Dec 2022
Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2427 reviews, 5007 commits in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Uwe's contributions primarily involve refactoring the Sandbox interface for FileInfo/FileAccess to prepare for the removal of TrackFile. These changes include modifications to the `src/library/dao/trackdao.cpp` file, reflecting the user's work on backend data management and database interactions. The commits also include adjustments to the FFMPEG code in `soundsourceffmpeg.cpp` and related header files, focusing on fixing build issues and enhancing performance.
everythingwindowshidmidilinux
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