Florian Motlik
Founder at The Serverless Way
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolFlorian Motlik is a cloud-native founder and AWS consultant with 16 years of experience designing serverless and container-based infrastructure for medium to enterprise organizations. He founded The Serverless Way to help teams adopt serverless patterns, optimize account/organization setups, and improve CI/CD and developer productivity through tooling and guides. Previously CTO at Codeship and Serverless, he brings deep operational experience in CI/CD, Golang/Docker-based build platforms, and large-scale cloud migrations. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the popular Serverless Framework by fixing API Gateway validation issues, enhancing tests, and hardening AWS provider credential handling. Based in Vienna, he prefers leadership roles where he can shape team practices rather than individual contributor work. He’s known for turning complex cloud setups into repeatable, well-documented solutions and for sharing those patterns publicly.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
aws10
api-gateway10
serverless-framework10
testing9
javascript9
cicd8
nodejs8
devops7
yaml7
aws-cloudformation7
credentials6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
bdd6
continuous-integration6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 332 commits, 386 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to improving the serverless framework's codebase through bug fixes and enhancements. Their work included resolving validation issues within the API Gateway events, ensuring correct behavior in both object and string event configurations. They also addressed test descriptions and made adjustments to integration tests, incorporating changes to improve the testing process and incorporate features. Furthermore, the user modified the AWS SDK, including setting up credentials for cloud provider profiles.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
codeship/discourse-demo
May 2015 - Mar 2016
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Contributions:136 commits, 47 pushes, 33 branches in 10 months
discourseconversationedtech
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