Florian Sesser
Software Engineer & Sales Support at flosse.works
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Sesser is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating privacy-focused, cloud and distributed systems from Munich. He blends hands-on SRE/DevOps expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, NixOS), backend development in Java/Python/C, and web/IT-security know-how while also supporting sales and product adoption at UhuruTec. Florian has a strong open-source orientation—contributing to projects like the Tahoe-LAFS decentralized secure filesystem by implementing and testing an OpenMetrics endpoint for Prometheus. He teaches cloud technologies at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology and runs a freelance practice focused on well-crafted open-source software. His background includes founding a crowd-simulation startup and leading monitoring and reliability work for Least Authority’s privacy-first storage product, demonstrating both entrepreneurial and operational depth. Collectedly, he combines academic teaching, startup leadership, and production-grade systems engineering with a practical eye for observability and privacy.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (~= Master's), Computer Science + Psychology, Diploma (~= Master's), Computer Science + Psychology at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
python10
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metric10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
The Tahoe-LAFS decentralized secure filesystem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 29 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of an OpenMetrics endpoint for the Tahoe-LAFS project. Their work involved creating the endpoint, formatting statistics data for Prometheus compatibility, and writing test cases to validate the output against the OpenMetrics specification. This included refactoring and restructuring the code to use more efficient methods for OpenMetrics output. They also added a test suite to verify the OpenMetrics endpoint's functionality.
securetahoe-lafsfilesystemdecentralized
hacklschorsch/awesome-administration
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
A curated list of open government initiatives - public money, public code!
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 1 year 11 months
public-money-public-codegovernmentfinancemoneypublic-code
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