Florian Kiem is a design-focused engineer based in Amsterdam with four years of hands-on experience blending front-end engineering and product design. He’s shipped UI improvements and feature work for open-source projects like dub—implementing components, responsive adjustments, export functionality and even AI-powered short link generation used by teams at Twilio and Vercel. Florian has moved between startups, freelance design, and teaching roles, giving him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product problems. Currently a Design Engineer at Envel, he combines visual craft from a graphic and motion design background with practical full-stack implementation skills. Notably, he pairs academic study at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and Delft with a habit of fixing small UI details that improve usability and polish.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Design- and Mediatechnology, High School Diploma, Design- and Mediatechnology at Karl-Arnold-Schule Biberach an der Riss
Fashion, interior and industrial design, Fashion, interior and industrial design at Delft University of Technology
Bachelor, Digital Product Design and Development, Bachelor, Digital Product Design and Development at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
The modern link attribution platform. Loved by world-class marketing teams like Framer, Perplexity, Superhuman, Twilio, Buffer and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `dub` platform. They implemented UI improvements by fixing the strokewidths of icons and implementing a tag selector component. The user also developed new features such as export data functionality and an AI short link generation. In addition, the user made responsive design and design adjustments.
Contributions:140 commits, 6 PRs, 161 pushes in 4 months
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