Tom Klein
CEO at Gentlent
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Klein is a pragmatic software engineer and technical support lead with nine years of hands-on experience building high-performance web systems, troubleshooting code-related products, and coordinating incident response at Cloudflare. He combines founder-level product thinking from running Tom Klein IT and Gentlent with deep operational expertise across CDN, SSL/TLS, and cloud infrastructure. Having shipped his first website in 2006, Tom pairs long-term web craftsmanship with modern tooling—contributing to projects like Cloudflare Zaraz and maintaining Managed Components for faster, privacy-focused third-party management. Comfortable as an on-call lead and CEO, he excels under pressure, translating executive escalations into swift technical action and scalable solutions. Based in Düsseldorf, he brings a global perspective from work with startups and enterprises across North America and Europe.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist for Application Development Information Technology, Specialist for Application Development Information Technology at Business Academy North - Media and Computer Science
English, German
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Github Skills (23)
markdown10
cloudflare10
mdx10
public-suffix-list10
logger8
nodejs7
cli6
react6
google-analytics6
console6
logging5
typescript4
facebook-pixel4
testing2
twitter2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomkln/cloudflare-docs
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Cloudflare’s developer docs.
Contributions:7 PRs, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
cloudflarecloudflare-workers
gentlent/ui
Aug 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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