Franziska Hinkelmann
Developer Relations Engineering Manager
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFranziska Hinkelmann is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building high-performance JavaScript and cloud developer experiences, now leading Developer Relations Engineering at Google. She combines deep technical roots in V8 and Node.js core contributions—including measurable performance improvements and VM module fixes—with product-oriented DevRel leadership that automated documentation for 180+ cloud APIs. Previously she scaled and mentored large, globally distributed advocacy teams at Microsoft and shipped widely used tooling like teeny-request (millions weekly downloads). An active open-source maintainer and CI/CD/DevOps practitioner, she has improved build pipelines and reliability across major Google Cloud client libraries and Node.js samples. With a PhD-level mathematical background and hands-on systems work from compiler internals to Groebner-basis algorithms, she brings rare breadth from formal algorithms to production cloud systems. Based in North Carolina, she also sits on the Green Software Foundation steering committee, reflecting a long-term interest in sustainable software practices.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at Virginia Tech
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (57)
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javascript10
docker10
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bigquery10
geometry10
apidoc10
algebra10
testing10
v810
storage10
typescript10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-getting-started
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
A tutorial for creating a complete application using Node.js on Google Cloud Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 55 commits, 194 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Franziska's commits primarily revolve around improving the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the Node.js application. They focused on fixing build failures, updating Node.js versions used in tests and end-to-end (E2E) testing environments, and correctly loading the Node Version Manager (NVM). Additionally, the user removed unnecessary configuration files and updated the deployment scripts, demonstrating strong knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
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googleapis/nodejs-storage
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Node.js client for Google Cloud Storage: unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Franziska primarily focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the Google Cloud Storage Node.js client. Their commits involved fixing system tests by ensuring correct string comparisons, removing support for uploading from a URL, and updating dependencies. They also introduced a small HTTP dependency to improve the efficiency of the client. Additionally, they contributed by updating the documentation links.
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