Florian Holzapfel
Software Engineer at glueckkanja AG
Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Holzapfel is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently building backend systems at glueckkanja AG from Offenbach, Germany. He brings deep C/C++ expertise and an intimate understanding of Win32 and COM, complemented by strong Linux/Unix (especially BSD) skills and fluency in Python, C#, and Perl. Florian has a pragmatic approach to cross-platform development, routinely navigating low-level Windows APIs while contributing robust server-side features and fixes in Node.js/Mongoose projects. His open-source contributions include improving sub-document handling and API robustness in the express-restify-mongoose repository, demonstrating attention to edge cases and maintenance-driven quality. Trained in computer engineering at Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, he pairs formal engineering grounding with practical, production-focused problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing legacy code and implementing defensible, well-tested improvements across diverse stacks.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main
Russian, French, English, German
Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
mongoose10
rest-api10
javascript10
nodejs10
expressjs10
mongodb10
api-design10
restful-api10
mongodb-database10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
florianholzapfel/express-restify-mongoose
Jun 2013 - Aug 2022
Easily restify mongoose databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 15 reviews, 248 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed to the express-restify-mongoose project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to handling sub-documents and refining the API. Their work included testing sub-documents, providing support for arrays of sub-documents, and modifying code to align with coding conventions. The user also addressed deprecation warnings from connect 3.0 and made adjustments to internal object handling.
restifymongomongoosejsdatabasesnodejs
florianholzapfel/node-highrise-api
Jan 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
cmsapiphpapi-cms
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