About Me

H! I am Florian Scherf from Hildesheim in Germany. I was born in 94 and have worked as a full-stack web developer since 2013.

I love Python, and I created and still maintain a lot of smaller and larger open-source projects.
I created Lona, a web framework for responsive web apps that are written in pure Python, rlpython, a simple and easy-to-use Python REPL that can run over the network, and Milan, a browser-testing and capturing tool to generate documentation and marketing material.
I am a heavy user of Grafana and created prometheus-virtual-metrics to make almost anything discoverable with Grafana, using very simple Python code.
This very blog you are reading right now is rendered by LimePress, a static site generator that I wrote from scratch as the spiritual successor to Flamingo, a former project of mine.

My most recent toy project is pillowfort, which is the start of a custom 2D (maybe 3D in the future) game engine for multiplayer browser games, written in TypeScript.
Not because it makes sense to build a game engine from scratch, but because it's fun :)

I do most of my work in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript, and I have some experience with C, C++, PHP, and Rust. I have much experience with unit and end-to-end testing using browser tests, CI, and CD.

In my career, I created and maintained multiple web-based services, like accounting solutions, web shops, or a web-based interface for a company-wide phone system.
I also maintained multiple open-source projects like Flamingo.
I implemented multiple corporate web designs, collaborating with one or more designers, at this point, using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and Sass.
At all the companies I worked at, I created internal tooling and libraries and tried to push my open-source-shaped mindset of sharing code and working together.

I am very passionate about open-source, web, and good tooling. I would describe myself as a platform developer since most of my projects are frameworks meant to enable others to create useful tools.

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