Franz Höpfner is a Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building native Apple platform apps and leading engineering efforts at CHECK24 in the Greater Leipzig area. He combines hands-on iOS, watchOS and macOS development with DevOps and product-facing responsibilities, having progressed from iOS Developer to Lead Developer within the same organization. An entrepreneurial technologist, he founded and runs two custom-software companies—kinnarr development and fNf development—bringing practical client-facing delivery experience alongside his corporate roles. His background includes research and high-performance computing work at TU Dresden, giving him a strong systems and performance mindset that complements his mobile expertise. Comfortable bridging research, startup and enterprise contexts, he focuses on shipping reliable user-facing apps while improving operational maturity behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Informationssystemtechnik, Diplom-Ingenieur, Informationssystemtechnik at Technische Universität Dresden
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