Florian Walch
Principal Software Engineer at Neatleaf
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Walch is a Principal Software Engineer based in Munich with 18 years of experience designing robust build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and backend tooling for robotics and developer tools. He advanced from software developer to tech lead at Franka Robotics, where he modernized C++ libraries and robot integrations and drove code quality through clang tooling, Google Test, and CMake CI targets. Florian is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Neovim, improving cross-platform builds and test automation, and to Franka-related repos where he focused on static analysis, formatting, and release readiness. His strengths sit at the intersection of engineering leadership and hands-on DevOps: automating complex builds, resolving flaky tests, and streamlining dependency and release workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who elevates team delivery by turning brittle build and test processes into reliable, maintainable pipelines.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
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Github Skills (42)
c-language10
static-analysis10
py10
python10
setuptools10
testing10
cd10
bash10
cmake10
travis-ci10
codebuild10
clang-format10
cicd10
neovim10
header-files10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
frankarobotics/libfranka
Jan 2017 - Jun 2021
C++ client library to control Franka robots in real-time
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 644 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed significantly to the build process and general code quality of the libfranka library. They integrated Google Test as a subproject, improved code formatting according to Google style, and modernized the use of headers, including the adoption of #pragma once. They also streamlined the build process by adding CMake targets for continuous integration, including format and tidy checks. Finally, the user added the ability to show the version of the robot in the robot class.
cpp
frankarobotics/franka_ros
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
ROS integration for Franka research robots
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:289 commits, 18 PRs, 46 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Florian focused on improving the development and build processes for the Franka ROS integration repository. They implemented and configured clang tooling for code formatting and static analysis, including clang-format and clang-tidy. Furthermore, the user modified the CI/CD scripts, adding tools for building and testing. These changes indicate a strong focus on code quality and automated build and test processes.
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