Florian Herlings
Technischer Direktor at denkwerk GmbH
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Herlings is a seasoned technology leader and technical director based in Cologne with 16 years of hands-on experience building and scaling eCommerce and startup engineering organizations. He combines deep software craftsmanship—from PHP/Symfony and Node.js backends to React/Vue frontends—with a proven track record of shaping architecture, processes and product vision across roles from CTO to VP/Director of Engineering. Florian is also a passionate educator and coach, having taught full-stack web development to cohorts and mentored engineers to accelerate their technical careers. He excels at balancing feature delivery with technical debt management and institutionalizing predictable development practices that increase team autonomy and impact. A pragmatic founder and early-stage CTO, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and long-term maintainability focus to product engineering.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science (BS) Medieninformatik at Düsseldorf University of Applied SciencesMediengestalter für Digital- und Printmedien (Non-Print Operating), Mediengestalter für Digital- und Printmedien (Non-Print Operating) at Berufskolleg Glockenspitz
German, English
Github Skills (52)
heroku-cli10
npm-cli9
heroku9
api9
buildpack8
rest8
javascript8
nodejs8
mysql7
cms7
dashboard7
typescript7
cli7
graphql7
koa6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FlorianH/pinger-for-online-lectures
Apr 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
FlorianH/Markab
Jan 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 2 years 1 month
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