Florian Von Bock
Lead Systems Engineer at Gmonsters Inc
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Von Bock is a trilingual lead systems engineer and architect with over 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed backends, game servers, data pipelines, and chatbots for multinational brands and high‑traffic games. He combines startup agility and enterprise rigor, having reduced server costs dramatically with serverless patterns and led platform work at Rakuten Games and GMonsters where he now shapes infrastructure, Terraform deployments, observability, and LLM-based chatbots. An active open-source contributor, he authored improvements to a zero‑downtime Go server package (endless) adding TLS, multi-listener fixes and graceful restart logic that reflect his operational-first engineering style. Fluent in English, German and Japanese, he pairs deep technical breadth—from NLP and recommendation systems to smart contracts—with a practical focus on reliability and real‑time analytics. Notably, his career blends longtime freelancing and founding experience with large-scale game and messaging systems, giving him an unusual mix of product empathy and infrastructure craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese at Yamasa Institute
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
http10
go10
concurrency10
networking9
libtls9
tls139
tls129
mtls9
devops8
system-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fvbock/endless
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Zero downtime restarts for go servers (Drop in replacement for http.ListenAndServe)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits, 14 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on developing and refining the `endless` package, which aims to provide zero-downtime restarts for Go servers. Their contributions include implementing TLS support, addressing multi-listener socket issues, and enhancing the server's shutdown and restart mechanisms. The user also added features like signal handling and a hammerTime function to gracefully manage server restarts.
golangzero-downtimedrop-inzerorestarts
fvbock/excerpt
May 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 10 months
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