Jens Lütjen
Software Engineer at Opoura
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJens Lütjen is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of documented experience and a long career in embedded and application development dating back to the mid-1990s. Based in Hanover, Germany, he has held roles across companies such as Quantec Systems and Loewe Technologies, combining soft- and hardware background with modern backend engineering. He contributes to open-source projects like Mopidy, where he implemented robust state persistence for playback, tracklist and mixer settings—demonstrating attention to reliable user-facing behavior and durable system state. Jens brings a Diplom-Ingenieur in Information Technology sensibility to engineering problems, favoring maintainable designs and pragmatic persistence models. Colleagues can expect a seasoned developer who bridges legacy embedded systems experience with contemporary server-side development.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Informationstechnik, Diplom-Ingenieur Informationstechnik at Fachhochschule Hannover
Github Skills (14)
state-management10
mopidy10
audio-player10
media-player10
sound-player10
music10
python10
player10
persistence9
json9
configurations8
configuration-management8
configuration-file8
gstreamer4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mopidy/mopidy
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 8 PRs, 2 branches in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jens focused on enhancing the Mopidy music server by implementing state persistence across runs. They introduced features to save and load core state, including the tracklist, playback history, and mixer settings, improving user experience. The commits demonstrate modifications to core actor logic and tracklist, playback, history and mixer controllers to facilitate state management. These changes involved integrating new models and methods for efficient saving and restoring the application's state on disk.
mopidypythonmusic-player
dublok/mopidy
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 9 months
music-servermusic-playergoogle-play-musicmpdsoundcloud
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