Florian Kirchner
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolFlorian Kirchner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and platform tooling at tech-forward companies like Spotify and Canva. He has deep experience in payment and royalties processing, authentication/authorization platforms, and global incident coordination, having owned critical services that touch billions of events and millions of users. Fluent in microservices, CI/CD, observability and cross-functional collaboration, he has moved from hands-on PHP/Java stacks into large-scale platform engineering at consumer tech companies. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem solving born of a “trial and error” mindset and a track record of stabilizing high-impact systems under ambiguous ownership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker, Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker, Anwendungsentwicklung at Heinrich-Hertz Berufskolleg DüsseldorfAndroid Developer Nanodegree, Computer-Softwaretechnik, Android Developer Nanodegree, Computer-Softwaretechnik at Udacity
German, English, Spanish, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (100)
proxy10
laravel10
api10
gateway10
php10
laravel-framework10
golang9
reverse-proxy9
microservices9
api-gateway9
role-based9
rabbitmq8
message-queue8
ansible-galaxy8
programming-language8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
c4pone/vimphp
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
c4pone/python-docker-test
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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