Florian Spieß
Software Engineer at blocsie
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Spieß is a software engineer and PhD-trained computer scientist with a decade of experience blending research, teaching, and industry development across embedded, networking, and audio systems. Based in Schweinfurt, Germany, he currently works at Fresenius Medical Care while leading research on localization benchmarks in simulated industrial environments and maintaining a long-running freelance engineering practice. His open-source contributions to the popular JDA Discord Java library reveal deep expertise in low-level audio processing and RTP/networking that improved real-time voice stability. Florian’s background combines an M.Eng. in electrical and information technology with extensive academic roles—lecturer and research assistant—giving him a rare ability to translate rigorous research into production-ready software. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky audio/networking edge cases and for mentoring students and engineers in applied systems research.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Alevel, Alevel at Walther rathenau gymnasiumDoctoral researcher, Computer Science, Doctoral researcher, Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical engineering and information technology, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical engineering and information technology at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS)
English, German
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Github Skills (17)
discord10
audio-processing10
java10
audio10
javas10
kotlin9
concurrent-programming8
concurrency8
concurrent8
mips6
discord-jda6
discord4j6
bots6
suspend6
option-type6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
discord-jda/JDA
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Java wrapper for the popular chat & VOIP service: Discord https://discord.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Audio Engineer
Back-end Developer & Audio EngineerContributions:65 releases, 1021 reviews, 965 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Florian's commits primarily focus on improving the internal handling of audio functionality and fixing issues related to Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) within the JDA library. They addressed noise problems, optimized audio connection shutdown, and improved various aspects of audio internals. The user demonstrates expertise in low-level audio processing, networking, and Discord's voice channel implementation, with contributions impacting the stability and efficiency of audio connections.
apiapi-wrapperdiscordpromoted-downloadsbot
MinnDevelopment/MinnBot
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:27 PRs, 127 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
discord-jsdiscordbotchatdiscord-bot
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