Summary
Florian Ziesche is a Senior Software Engineer based in Germany with 15 years of professional experience and a deep specialization in GPU programming and C++. He has spent over a decade building high-performance image processing and compute pipelines using C++, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenGL, and was an early adopter of Metal and Vulkan. At Leica Microsystems he has driven GPU-focused projects since 2016 and moved into senior engineering responsibilities in 2021, bridging research-level algorithms with production-quality systems. His academic background in Computer Science and Media Informatics from Universität des Saarlandes underpins a strong foundation in both theory and applied graphics. Florian is particularly adept at turning complex parallel algorithms into maintainable, performant code for real-world imaging products. Colleagues value his combination of low-level optimization expertise and pragmatic product-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German