Franziska Von Der Goltz
Security Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarFranziska Von Der Goltz is a Security Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently bringing security expertise to Apple. She has a strong open-source track record, contributing front-end and full-stack improvements to high-profile projects like Linkerd (an ultralight, security-first service mesh) and Buoyant’s emojivoto demo, where she enhanced UIs, telemetry, and reliability. Prior roles span fast-moving startups and education—Buoyant, Hackbright Academy, and operations leadership—demonstrating both hands-on engineering and mentorship. Known for clean UI refactors, thoughtful testing, and pragmatic error handling, she combines security-minded engineering with user-focused interface work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (13)
css10
service-mesh10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
go9
api8
apidoc8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
dockers5
docker5
golang4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BuoyantIO/emojivoto
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Example application to help demonstrate the Linkerd service mesh
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Franziska contributed to both the front-end and back-end of the application. They focused on modifying the UI, including adding the "Emoji Vote" title, favicon, and Conduit footer to the leaderboard. They also addressed an issue with the voting service by handling potential errors and altering the error message display. Furthermore, the user made changes to the emoji service to restrict the emoji choices to a pre-defined top 100.
meshkuberneteslinkerdservice-mesh
linkerd/linkerd2
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 22 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Franziska primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Linkerd2 dashboard. Their contributions included fixing inconsistencies in deployment counts, refactoring UI components, and adding features like flashing indicators on line graphs to highlight the latest data points. They also implemented and improved testing for the service mesh component, ensuring accurate message displays based on deployment status. Furthermore, the user refactored the incomplete-mesh messaging and updated Grafana dashboards.
golangmesh2-xrustsecurity
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