Franz Eichhorn
Engineering Team Lead at LOVOO
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolFranz Eichhorn is an Engineering Team Lead based in Dresden with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and leading engineering teams at LOVOO. He combines hands-on Go and Kafka expertise with a focus on maintainability and CI-driven workflows, evidenced by contributions to the widely used goka stream-processing library where he improved reliability and test coverage. Prior academic experience as scientific staff at TU Dresden informs his pragmatic, research-minded approach to engineering problems. Known for pragmatic refactors and thoughtful error-handling fixes, he helps teams ship robust distributed systems rather than premature features. Fluent in bridging academic rigor and product delivery, he excels at turning complex streaming and backend challenges into stable, maintainable services.
11 years of coding experience
1.8, 1.8 at TU Dresden
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Github Skills (7)
stream-processing10
apache-kafka10
go10
testing9
continuous-integration8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lovoo/goka
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 187 reviews, 204 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Franz primarily contributed to the `goka` library, a distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka. Their commits focused on refactoring imports, fixing tests, and adding continuous integration (CI) configurations. Furthermore, they made several adjustments across different components of the library, addressing issues such as consumer closure and incorrect handling of errors, indicating a focus on improving the library's reliability and maintainability.
golangstream-processingapache-kafkacompactstreaming
lovoo/goka-tools
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Goka Tools provides different tools to be used with Goka
Contributions:5 releases, 23 reviews, 88 commits in 3 years 11 months
golanggatlingloadtestingstarlarkstream
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