Florian Odronitz
CTO & Co-Founder at Soba Studios
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Odronitz is a CTO and co-founder based in Berlin with 14 years of engineering and leadership experience spanning startups, games, and research-driven organizations. He has led backend and platform engineering at Wooga through roles from Software Engineer to Principal Engineer and now steers product and technical strategy at Soba Studios. Florian combines academic rigor—a summa cum laude doctorate in bioinformatics/genomics—with hands-on startup building (twofloats, freelance work) to bridge complex technical problems and product outcomes. He is comfortable shipping scalable back-end systems for game and consumer products while also founding and mentoring early-stage engineering teams. Although primarily focused on software and architecture, his background in computational biology gives him a distinctive data-oriented approach to engineering decisions. His public GitHub presence reflects a practical, maker mindset for tooling and reproducible engineering.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Biology, Diploma, Biology at University of KonstanzWestern UniversityDr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics, Genomics, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics, Genomics, summa cum laude at Max Planck Society
Github Skills (64)
erlang10
instrumentation10
distributions10
quantile10
memory-efficient9
monitoring9
round-robin9
elixir9
embedded9
data-structures8
prometheus8
iot8
gossip8
messaging7
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
odo/ramjet
Nov 2014 - Nov 2019
load testing with sessions in erlang
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years
load-testingtestingerlang
odo/odo.github.io
May 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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