Florian Abel
Vice President Of Engineering at bookline.ai
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Abel is a Vice President of Engineering and backend specialist with a decade of experience building Python-first web systems (Django, Flask, FastAPI) and leading engineering teams in fast-moving startups. He combines hands-on expertise in containerization and GitLab CI/CD with a strong focus on clean code and TDD, having progressed from senior engineer and architect roles to VP-level leadership at bookline.ai. A multilingual M.Sc. graduate from KIT, Florian blends technical depth in software architecture with past product and founding experience—co-founding an edtech company and multiple startups—giving him a pragmatic, product-focused mindset. He regularly shares learnings through technical writing on Medium and maintains an active freelance practice, signaling a continual curiosity and commitment to community knowledge sharing. An oft-overlooked strength is his background in mechanical and automotive engineering, which gives him a systems-thinking approach to scalable software design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Automotive Engineering, Automotive Engineering at Hanyang UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Vehicle and Engine Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Vehicle and Engine Engineering at University of StuttgartMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore
German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
sqlalchemy8
admin7
sanic7
twisted6
python6
fastapi6
tortoise-orm5
wsgi5
sqlmodel5
fastapi-extension4
asyncio4
asgi4
jwt3
authorization3
starlette3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
florianabel/social-auth-example-django
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 days
florianabel/social-auth-example-flutter
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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