Florian Forster
Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Forster is a Site Reliability Engineer with two decades of software experience and 11 years focused on SRE, currently shaping service management between GCP and Google’s private cloud. He has a strong track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives to completion by aligning stakeholders, fostering collaboration, and driving knowledge sharing. Comfortable across runtimes and grounded in theoretical computer science, he pairs deep systems thinking with practical, production-grade implementation. Florian is an active open-source contributor with notable backend work on widely used projects like Terraform and HashiCorp’s HCL—improving critical parsing, encoding, and remote state components. Based in Nuremberg, he prefers roles that influence technical direction at scale while allowing remote work with periodic travel. Quick to learn and methodical, he often surfaces subtle correctness issues (UTF-8, Unicode, buffering) before they reach production.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
English, German
Github Skills (48)
unit-testing10
json-parser10
json10
debugging10
debug10
scanner10
back-end-development10
testing10
printer10
hcl10
jsonp10
memory-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
c-programming10
c1110
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
collectd/collectd
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 295 reviews, 8 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the `write_kafka` plugin within the collectd repository, focusing on functionality related to the Apache Kafka write module. They implemented features like integrating Kafka with data sources. The commits involve modifications to the code for writing data to Kafka.
metrics-servermqtt-serverriemann-clientrrdtoolgraphite-client
lloyd/yajl
Aug 2009 - Nov 2010
A fast streaming JSON parsing library in C.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on adding a tree-like structure to the JSON parsing library. They implemented the `yajl_tree_parse` function to parse JSON data into a tree, and added `yajl_tree_free` to free the allocated memory. Further contributions included parsing JSON numbers, including integer and double representations, and enhancing error handling. The user also added Doxygen documentation and improved the codebase with macros.
streamingparsingstreaming-jsonparserjson-parsing
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