A senior product engineer who loves to build in the cloud

Hi, I'm Florian! I'm a Senior Product Engineer specialising in building serverless applications on AWS, with a strong foundation across the full stack. I'm an AWS Community Builder in the Serverless track.

I started as a Java developer 10+ years ago, learned the basics of networking and the corporate life, and finally moved from backend development over to creating mobile apps during my bachelor's degree. The first apps had a strong focus on Android - in the times before Kotlin was a thing. What changed a lot of things was the introduction of React-Native, which I first used in a Hackathon back in 2016. But, having the app or a frontend alone does not really give you a working product. And the time of a student is also limited. To give me some more space for creativity, I hoped on the new cool thing back then: Serverless (triggered by the introduction of AWS Lambda). This roughly summarizes my journey up until now and the focus I currently have: Serverless and mobile applications.

The beauty of this combination is that you can build everything on your own in an unbelievable speed. I use serverless and cloud-agnostic technologies to minimize the costs, maintenance and setup time of the infrastructure. It makes building new stuff super easy and can be applied to a lot of different use cases. There are some exceptions though.

Today, I'm a Senior Product Engineer at epilot, where I build customer-facing portals serving 50,000+ end users for B2B clients. Outside of work I spend time integrating Claude in production via the Anthropic API and writing MCP servers to make agentic workflows actually usable, plus sharing AWS / serverless writing as part of the AWS Community Builder program.

Before epilot, I spent three years at Hashnode, a blogging platform for developers, as a Senior Full-Stack Developer. There I built the mobile app, designed the public GraphQL API, shipped the scalable feed system, and led Hashnode Docs end-to-end.