Thorin Schiffer
Founder at Handmade Software BV
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThorin Schiffer is a founder and seasoned Python engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems, automation tooling, and AI-driven integrations for retailers, publishers, and marketplaces. Based in Amsterdam, he leads ProductFlight, an AI-first integration platform for PIM systems, and runs Handmade Software BV while maintaining a hands-on background as a freelance developer. His career spans Django/DRF, FastAPI, and cloud deployments, with practical experience improving performance and UX for large publishers like Cornelsen and marketing platforms such as Zalando. Thorin’s work often focuses on automating supplier product data and making integrations plug-and-play—a throughline from his IBAN FastAPI proof-of-concept to his current ProductFlight product. He combines entrepreneurial drive with deep implementation chops, and maintains a public portfolio and openness to freelance collaborations from his Berlin-to-Amsterdam practice.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
2,826reputation
442kreached
33answers
14questions
django
top-5%
django-templates
top-5%
Github Skills (169)
parser10
python10
json-schema10
data-parsing10
heroku10
django10
validation10
pythonic10
csv10
parsing10
dataclasses9
laravel9
code-generator9
crm9
yaml9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thorin-schiffer/freeturn
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Freelance mission control
Contributions:1 release, 248 commits, 78 PRs in 2 years
cmsherokumission-controlpythondjango
thorin-schiffer/django-plpy
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Django utilities for Postgres PL/Python
Contributions:1 release, 151 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
pythondjangopostgresdjango-utilitiespostgresql
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