Florian Hotze
Freelance IT-Consultant at Computec Media GmbH
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarFlorian Hotze is a freelance IT consultant and computer science student at KIT with five years of hands-on experience building user-centric, scalable software and tooling. He is an active openHAB maintainer and assessor, contributing front-end UI components (including a SIP client) and full-stack/DevOps improvements to high-profile projects like openhab-webui and openhabian. Florian blends front-end craftsmanship with deployment and installer expertise—adding dark themes, log viewer integrations, locale fixes, and npm package management—to improve both developer and end-user experiences. Based in Karlsruhe, he also writes as a freelance author and brings a practical smart-home focus that informs his open-source work and consulting.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
npm10
debian10
component-development10
openhab10
bash10
web-components10
webui10
script10
front-end-development10
vue10
nodejs10
frontend10
back-end-development9
css9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab-webui
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Web UIs of openHAB
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:638 reviews, 14 commits, 1019 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the user interface of the openHAB web UI, focusing on the implementation and enhancement of frontend components. Their work includes the creation of a new SIP client component and widget, along with updates to related documentation. They also refactored existing code and addressed bugs related to the SIP client functionality, improving user experience and the overall stability of the UI. The commits show they also focused on improving the UI component documentation.
uisopenhabmhealthjavajavascript
openhab/openhabian
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
openHABian - empowering the smart home, for Raspberry Pi and Debian systems
Role in this project:Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 6 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the openHABian project by implementing and improving features related to the openHAB log viewer (frontail). This included adding a dark theme, integrating it into the openHABian menu, and making improvements to the installation process. Additionally, the user worked on fixing locale settings and adding support for installing and managing npm packages such as `openhab` and `openhab_rules_tools`. These changes spanned both the front-end and back-end of the project, and incorporated improvements to the system setup and deployment.
raspberry-piopenhabraspbianraspberryhome-automation
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