Florian Born
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Born is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft based in Germany with a career spanning two decades in 3D engines, tools and middleware. He founded and ran Trinigy and has held senior engineering and leadership roles at Vulpine and Havok, combining product ownership with deep systems and performance engineering. An active contributor to the widely used assimp Open Asset Import Library, he improved the FBX importer by moving from single allocations to block allocations and hardened the glTF2 loader against streaming and compile issues—showing a focus on memory-efficient, resilient back-end code. Florian blends automation, back-end development and compatibility work, bringing principal-level architecture skills together with pragmatic, performance-first implementation.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University Oldenburg
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
3ds10
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fbx10
c-language10
gltf10
c-programming-language10
asset-pipeline9
game-development8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
assimp/assimp
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Florian made significant contributions to the FBX file format importer within the assimp library. Their work involved replacing single allocations with block allocations, optimizing memory usage within the FBX loader. They also made adjustments to the glTF2 importer, building lists of vertices and improving resilience to data stream issues, demonstrating a focus on improving data handling and file format compatibility. Additionally, the user has addressed compiling issues.
pythonc-plus-plusobjective-cvolume-renderingfbx-exporter
Azure/azure-remote-rendering
May 2020 - Feb 2021
SDK and samples for Azure Remote Rendering
Contributions:18 releases, 2 reviews, 10 commits in 8 months
azure-remoterenderingsdkazure
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