Florian Abel

Building an agentic runtime inside a production Django stack, alongside core backend work. Atmio helps energy providers with compliance and workflows.

Joined as Senior/Architect, promoted to Lead (Software Architecture & AI), then VP of Engineering. Redesigned the conversational-AI bot framework and FastAPI backend into clean, layered architecture, migrated NoSQL → SQL, consolidated repos into a monorepo (5x faster deploys), and scaled the department from 8 to 13 engineers with hiring, review and testing standards.

A year across South America — reaching fluency in Spanish and Portuguese — while freelancing: requirements engineering for a TIER Mobility supply-chain project, a custom ERP for apic.ai, and a Flutter mobile app.

Co-founded a leadership-development e-learning startup and grew it 0 → 10 with pre-seed funding. Built the whole product — Nuxt.js frontend, Django/DRF backend with a learning-path matching algorithm — and the cloud infra (EC2, RDS, Docker Compose). Managed 5 across product, content and diagnostics.

Built a Python control suite for microservices on an embedded system; introduced clean-code standards and unit testing.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The mechanical-engineering and robotics background is where the first-principles habit comes from — before the move into software.

University of Stuttgart, with a bachelor thesis at Hanyang University (Seoul) and a study-abroad term at the National University of Singapore.

Led the board of 6 and a 50+ member student organization; restructured its development program into distinct leadership and technical tracks and directed industry projects generating six-figure revenues. Awarded KIT's Outstanding Student Dedication Award.