Franz Heinzmann
Core Engineer at number 0
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFranz Heinzmann is an open-source core engineer with 11 years of experience, blending full-stack development, peer-to-peer systems research, and grassroots community media technology. Based in Freiburg, he contributes to and helps steer worker-owned arso collective while maintaining long-standing involvement with Radio Dreyeckland’s tech team. His background includes co-maintaining subsystems in Drupal 7 and architecting larger Drupal projects across media, e-commerce, and transportation, complemented by years as a freelance Drupal consultant. Franz combines technical depth with community-focused project management and research, often applying academic perspectives from interdisciplinary anthropology and political science to socio-technical problems. He’s known for a friendly, collaborative approach to engineering and for prioritizing decentralized, community-first solutions that scale beyond single organizations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Interdisciplinary Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Anthropology at The University of Freiburg
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
kappa10
json-schema10
bots10
chat10
data-validation10
napi10
json10
imap10
libp2p10
nodejs10
mongodb10
packed10
json-rpc10
filesystem10
indexing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
repco-org/repco
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Replication & Collection for community media
Contributions:25 reviews, 219 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 1 month
community-mediagraphqlipldpublishingreplication
arso-project/Toshi
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
A full-text search engine in rust
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
full-text-searchrustfull-textindexingsearch-engine
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