Florian Wachmann
Staff Software Engineer at formfcw
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarFlorian Wachmann is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vienna with five years of professional engineering experience and a long-running entrepreneurial background as founder and multi-role technologist at formfcw since 2011. He blends front-end craftsmanship, UX/UI sensibility, and full‑stack development to deliver polished interfaces and practical product solutions. At Directus he contributes to a prominent open-source headless CMS, improving UI layouts and adding robust translation features that preserve data integrity during schema changes. Florian’s profile reflects rare continuity: a decade-plus of design and front-end practice paired with recent staff-level engineering on an influential OSS platform. Colleagues can expect a designer’s attention to usability combined with engineering rigor and experience shipping real-world web products.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
android-app10
vue10
typescript-types10
application10
headless-cms9
cms9
ui-design8
database7
databases7
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 41 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the front-end of the Directus platform. Their work included fixing UI layout issues, specifically addressing button alignments. They also implemented new features related to translations, such as inserting new translation keys and setting default languages, which impacted data model settings. Furthermore, they were involved in preserving translation strings when duplicating fields, ensuring data integrity during field modifications.
cmsno-codecollaborationintuitivevue
formfcw/directus-extension-flexible-editor
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
A rich text editor (WYSIWYG) with JSON output that allows the integration of M2A relations to make it extremely flexible. A truly rich editor for Directus.
Contributions:31 releases, 10 reviews, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
block-editordirectusdirectus-custom-bundledirectus-custom-displaydirectus-custom-interface
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