Florian Polster
Senior Backend Engineer at Staffbase
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Polster is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and analytics platforms, currently improving architectural clarity and delivery at Staffbase. He brings hands-on expertise in Go, Scala, and Python, and has designed and operated microservices and data pipelines using Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, Mongo and Elasticsearch. Florian progressed from helping create a BigQuery-based data warehouse with strict GDPR constraints to leading cross-functional teams that ship customer-facing analytics on Kubernetes. Known for stepping into teams that lack seniority and quickly restoring planning and execution discipline, he also mentors engineers and fights tech debt pragmatically. Based in Chemnitz, Germany, he combines deep backend engineering with an uncommon focus on observability and long-term operational ownership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technische Universität Chemnitz
English
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Github Skills (200)
docker-run10
programming-language10
notification-api10
expressjs10
python10
code-behind10
echo10
testing10
websocket10
firefox-addon10
interpreter10
go-web-framework10
docker-container10
tabs-management10
middleware10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pofl/dotfiles
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:72 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 11 months
pofl/hop-on-hop-off-git
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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