Florian Schmidt
Solutions Architect at Netlight
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolFlorian Schmidt is a Solutions Architect based in Munich with 11 years’ experience building full-stack products and steering large-scale, data-intensive projects. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing bug fixes, tests and reliability improvements to Apache Flink—with product-minded delivery for non-profits and commercial clients. At Ververica he worked on core stream-processing internals (including a time-relative stream join API) and researched active replication for his master’s thesis, reflecting deep expertise in distributed streaming systems. Florian excels at bridging stakeholders from ideation to production, frequently influencing strategic decisions while remaining pragmatic about shipping maintainable software. Quietly curious and always exploring new technologies, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Schiller-Gymnasium HofBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
Github Skills (9)
javas10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
java10
testing10
bash9
big-data9
scala5
sql5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 14 PRs, 50 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to the Apache Flink codebase. Their work involved addressing issues in JavaDoc, modifying end-to-end tests, and correcting messages. Furthermore, the user made changes to the test scripts. The commits demonstrate a focus on the maintainability and reliability of the Flink project, particularly in the context of end-to-end testing.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
florianschmidt1994/flink
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Mirror of Apache Flink
Contributions:137 pushes, 33 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
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