Florian Cäsar
Founder at Symbol Industries
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFlorian Cäsar is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems and developer tools, currently leading Bench—a fully integrated stack and platform for agents. He blends deep hands‑on technical work (scalable backends, NLP pipelines, distributed ledgers) with business leadership, having built and sold an NLP-for-digital-assets company and led ML strategy and hiring at Messari. His early research and engineering on sharded consensus and application layers contributed to a $1B+ ledger (Radix), and he routinely ships production-grade distributed systems. A lifelong builder, he wrote an educational ML framework from GPU primitives to a Keras-like API as a high‑school project and released a well-received indie game, demonstrating a rare mix of low-level systems finesse and product-minded creativity. Based in Zurich, he focuses now on tooling that accelerates building better AI, marrying pragmatic engineering with entrepreneurial drive.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Secondary Technical College, Information Technology, 1.0, Matura, Secondary Technical College, Information Technology, 1.0 at HTL Wels
English, German
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Github Skills (128)
python10
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annotations10
android-client10
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linux10
codemirror10
artificial-intelligence10
rocket10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ThinkingTransistor/Sigma
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Rocket powered machine learning. Create, compare, adapt, improve - artificial intelligence at the speed of thought.
Contributions:2 releases, 564 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
pythonspeeddeep-learningreinforcement-learningframework
ThinkingTransistor/Sigma.DiffSharp
Dec 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 10 PRs, 58 pushes in 8 months
dotnetbackendsdata-typescsharpcli
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