Florian Hines
Software Engineer at Kilo Code
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFlorian Hines is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed storage, data, and infrastructure systems, currently based in San Antonio, TX. He played a central role in launching and operating Rackspace Cloud Files and contributing to OpenStack Swift, and since has driven product and infra transformations at companies like Netlify, Meltano, and several startups. Florian combines hands-on systems engineering (Go, AsyncIO, cloud deployments, Pulumi/GitHub Actions) with servant leadership—mentoring teams and guiding SOC2 and product exits as a founding engineer. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably to openstack/swift and meltano) and prefers solving hard operational problems, from high-throughput SSL load balancing to rewiring ELT pipelines for async execution. Off the clock he writes Go, watches soccer, and reads books of questionable quality—an engineer who blends practical craftsmanship with a taste for unconventional reading.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
CS Computer Science, CS Computer Science at Park University
English, German
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Github Skills (13)
data-engineering10
loader10
middleware10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
devops10
python10
openstack-swift10
system-monitoring10
elt9
json8
cloud-services7
cloud-infrastructure7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
meltano/meltano
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Data Engineer
Back-end & Data EngineerContributions:260 reviews, 156 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Florian made several commits focused on enhancing the Meltano code base related to data integration tasks. The changes included implementing enhancements to bookmark writing within Singer targets, indicating work related to data pipeline state management and potentially incremental data loading. The commits also show code modifications within core Singer plugin functionality, specifically related to taps and targets, reflecting efforts to improve the core functionality of Meltano's data integration engine.
pythondataloadersdbtdataops-platform
openstack/swift
Jul 2011 - Mar 2014
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the development of the recon middleware, a monitoring tool for the OpenStack Swift storage service. Their work involved implementing features to gather various system metrics like load, memory usage, and disk utilization. The user also integrated the recon middleware into the object server configuration and added support for pulling quarantine stats, showcasing a strong understanding of system monitoring and deployment. They also updated the swift-recon-cron script and made several pep8 fixes.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
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