Martin Florian
Software Engineering Team Lead at Digital Asset
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Florian is a software engineering team lead based in Berlin with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industrial product delivery in distributed systems, privacy, security, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. He holds a summa cum laude Ph.D. in computer science and has led research groups and innovation efforts at institutions like the Weizenbaum Institute and Bundesdruckerei before moving into production engineering at Digital Asset. Martin combines rigorous evaluation and systems design experience with practical leadership, shipping secure, compliance-aware solutions in regulated domains. His interdisciplinary background spans law, economics, and sociology, which informs a pragmatic approach to privacy and governance in technical systems. Notably, he has a long track record of moving research insights into real-world deployments, making him adept at turning complex, multi-stakeholder problems into auditable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (equivalent to M.Sc.), Computer Science, Diplom (equivalent to M.Sc.), Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, Bulgarian, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (38)
text-editor10
stellar10
cross-platform9
vim-plugin9
vim9
nim-language9
federated9
scp9
neovim9
wasm-bindgen8
blockchain8
consensus8
anonymous7
sass7
html6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
trudi-group/fbas_analyzer
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Tools and library for analyzing FBASs like Stellar
Contributions:325 commits, 1 PR, 64 pushes in 3 years 1 month
analyzingbyzantine-fault-toleranceconsensusblockchainstellar
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