Florian Kraft
Staff Software Engineer at Contentful
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Kraft is a Staff Software Engineer in Berlin with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud migrations, and developer-facing tooling. He blends hands-on compiler and backend contributions—such as enhancements to the Gleam language documentation and type visibility—with leadership roles that include founding CTO of a high-value advice marketplace and architecting digital transformation for the steel industry at kloeckner.i. At Contentful he drives messaging and cloud architecture work while mentoring teams and owning cross-functional “glue” responsibilities that keep complex projects moving. A lifelong coder who began at age 10, Florian couples pragmatic engineering (TDD, functional techniques) with product sensibility from e‑commerce to enterprise systems. Outside of engineering he’s a trained cinematographer and hobby filmmaker, bringing a creative, visual mindset to software design and communication.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cinematography and Film/Video Production at SAE Institute
German, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
programming-language10
compiler-compiler10
gleam10
compiler10
documentation10
magento9
angularjs9
html8
css8
ruby-on-rails6
php6
jquery6
angularjs-directive6
ruby6
ajax6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/gleam
May 2021 - Mar 2024
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 5 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed to the Gleam compiler by modifying documentation generation and type information display. They added features to show type opaqueness in the documentation and incorporated a visual indicator (tag) for opaque types. Their work involved changes to the compiler-core, including template modifications for displaying documentation and CSS adjustments. They also made several minor edits like whitespace removal.
gleamscalableerlangstatically-typedtype-safe
floriank/57-exercises-elixir
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:108 commits, 53 pushes, 46 branches in 19 days
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