Florian Nachtigall
Guest Researcher at PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Nachtigall is a software engineer and PhD researcher based in Berlin with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native tooling and data-driven research projects. He contributed significant backend and DevOps work to widely used open-source Cloud Foundry projects like BOSH and BOSH CLI, adding API features, config-diffing and deployment optimizations that improve lifecycle management at scale. After a long engineering stint at SAP he transitioned into climate and socio-environmental research roles, combining hands-on systems engineering with data engineering and teaching experience in deep learning. Currently a Guest Researcher at PIK and a PhD candidate at TU Berlin, he bridges rigorous academic inquiry with production-grade software craftsmanship. An interesting thread across his career is the blend of large-scale distributed-systems expertise and applied research in climate impact, enabling reproducible, scalable research pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems Management at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor of Science - BS, International Business Administration and Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, International Business Administration and Information Technology at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen同济大学Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (21)
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
testing10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
go-testing10
cl10
go10
api10
command-line10
yaml10
sh10
cli10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the BOSH Director project, focusing on API enhancements and configuration management. They implemented and refactored endpoints for managing CPI and other configurations, specifically adding functionality to compare and diff config changes. The commits also reflect involvement in testing and ensuring proper handling of different scenarios, including error conditions. Additionally, the user worked on improving the deployment process, adding features and optimizations.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
BOSH CLI v2+
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the BOSH CLI v2+ project by implementing new features and fixing existing ones. Their work involved adding a new flag to the `configs` command, modifying unit tests for the `director` and `configs` commands to align with version updates, and removing unnecessary ID rendering from the diff-config output. They also deprecated and provided warning messages for certain options and refactored cleanup CLI help. Their changes focused on improving functionality, and updating tests for the CLI tool.
boshcloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfbosh-cli
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