Florian Aust is a backend software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building production services in Go, Java and Kotlin, currently at KINEXON in Nuremberg. He has a practical academic background (B.Sc. in Computer Science) and a track record at PACE Telematics where he progressed from backend developer to machine learning engineer while completing a bachelor thesis on fuel-behavior prediction. Florian contributes to open source—expanding the popular pterm Go module with color fades, lists and other console UX improvements—showing attention to developer ergonomics and CLI polish. Fluent in German and English, he combines data-driven thinking from ML work with pragmatic backend engineering to ship reliable, user-friendly systems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Informatik
✨ #PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more 🚀 It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 180 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Florian focused on implementing and expanding the functionality of the `pterm/pterm` repository, which is a Go module for beautifying console output. They introduced a color fade function with RBG support, implemented color fade functionality into the Progressbar, and added a converter to convert hex color codes to RGB. Additionally, the user added a bullet list and a tree list printer. Their contributions enhance the visual and interactive aspects of console applications built using the module.
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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