Florian Franzen
Head Of Protocol Research at Gluwa
Baar, Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFlorian Franzen is a protocol-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience bridging rigorous academic research and hands-on decentralized systems development. Currently Head of Protocol Research at Gluwa and founder of a hardware/software prototyping studio, he has driven Polkadot specification and multi-client interoperability work at the Web3 Foundation and contributed core runtime and host fixes to prominent open-source projects like Gossamer. His background in neuroscience and advanced sensor/vision systems informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to protocol design, deployment, and cross-implementation testing. Comfortable from bare-metal deployments and network infrastructure to runtime internals and UI polish, he combines systems-level technical depth with practical product and release stewardship. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Florian is an open-source enthusiast who often translates research-grade ideas into production-ready tooling and infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Neural and Behavioral Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS Neural and Behavioral Neuroscience at University of Tübingen
English, German
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
runtimes10
run-time10
ui-design10
runtime-compilation10
polkadot-js10
go10
front-end-development10
golang10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
polkadot10
cprogramming-language10
runtime-environment10
user-interface9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
open-ephys/GUI
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Software for electrophysiology data acquisition (deprecated)
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:8 commits, 8 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on UI development within the Open Ephys GUI project. Their contributions included implementing custom arrow buttons and increment/decrement sliders, adding a custom look and feel. They also made minor cosmetic adjustments to the UI and adjusted the processor list's width to improve readability, indicating a focus on visual design and user experience.
data-acquisitionpythoncomputational-neuroscienceelectrophysiology-dataopen-science
ChainSafe/gossamer
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
🕸️ Go Implementation of the Polkadot Host
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on implementing and refining runtime interfaces and core functionalities within the Polkadot host implementation. Their contributions involved clearing WebAssembly memory between calls, completing and fixing the v0.8 runtime interface, and removing deprecated code related to wagon. They also worked on exposing a string array decoder for scale encoding and made improvements to logging. Additionally, the user addressed an issue of caching the runtime version in the instance to resolve a bug.
golangsubstratehostp2pblockchain
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