Florian Berchtold
Principal Software Engineer at Zipline
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Berchtold is a Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View with nine years of professional experience building embedded and developer-productivity systems across automotive and robotics domains. He progressed from drivetrain and ECU development at MAN to senior engineering roles at Samsung and Luminar, where he combined low-level control expertise with technical leadership before joining Zipline to focus on developer productivity. Florian is fluent in C++ ecosystems—evidenced by his maintainer work on the widely used conan-center-index—helping teams integrate complex native libraries and keep CI/CD pipelines healthy. His background in mechatronics and robotics from TUM and an exchange at UNSW give him a rare blend of systems thinking, hardware-aware software design, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on architect who surfaces subtle compatibility and build-system issues early, shortening feedback loops for distributed engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Auslandssemester, SOLA3507-Solar Cells, MTRN3100-Robot Design, MTRN3500-Comp Appl in Mech Sys, MTRN4020-Model & Contr, Auslandssemester, SOLA3507-Solar Cells, MTRN3100-Robot Design, MTRN3500-Comp Appl in Mech Sys, MTRN4020-Model & Contr at University of New South WalesMaster of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 2,2, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 2,2 at Technische Universität MünchenBSc, BSc at Management Center Innsbruck
German, English
Github Skills (10)
cpp-library10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
conan10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
cmake8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Package Maintainer
Backend Developer & Package MaintainerContributions:115 reviews, 21 commits, 48 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on maintaining and updating Conan recipes for various C++ libraries within the Conan Center Index. Their contributions included updating existing recipes to support new versions, incorporating bug fixes, and improving compatibility with different compilers and build systems. The user also collaborated with others to ensure the quality and accuracy of the recipes, as well as adapting to CI/CD changes. The user's work enabled the community to easily integrate and use these C++ libraries in their projects.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
blackliner/conan-center-index
Dec 2020 - Jul 2023
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Contributions:189 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 6 months
recipes
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