Florian has been an open-source and Apache Kafka® enthusiast for a long time and is currently working at Kestra on a distributed Declarative Orchestration Platform. He has over 12 years of experience as a Software Engineer, consultant, and trainer specialized in stream processing architectures. He is the creator of multiple open-source projects such as Kafka Connect FilePulse and Jikkou. For his contributions to the Apache Kafka ecosystem, Florian received the Confluent Community Catalyst award five times.

Florian is an open-source community enthusiast and the author of projects such as Kafka Streams CEP and Kafka Connect FilePulse, a popular community-driven Kafka source connector for streaming files from local filesystems, Amazon S3, Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. More recently, he started working on Jikkou, an open-source "Resource as Code" framework for Apache Kafka, designed to help implement GitOps for Kafka at scale.