I'm Flo from Munich, digital since the Game Boy Color and fascinated by technology of all sorts.

👨‍💻 I founded several IT startups during and after finishing a B. Sc. in mechanical engineering with a focus on aerospace engineering. Working with the development teams in my companies kindled a passion for software engineering that led me to shift focus from real-world engineering :). Currently, I am responsible for product management and development of new platforms at a large personnel service provider.

🧠 Because I am really interested in the intersection of neurology and tech, I am pursuing my M. Sc. in Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence at Technical University Munich which I am going to finish in in 2024.

📚 I love reading both novels and scientific literature. In the latter category, the most fascinating reads I can recommend to you are The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed by Christof Koch and The Book of Why by Judea Pearl.

🧘‍♂️ Apart from reading, my hobbies are meditating and learning about buddhist philosophy (check out Waking Up by Sam Harris if you are interested), building and flying model rockets, meddling with my Raspberry Pi, curating my personal playlist of obscure Dylan recordings (currently 506 songs long), trying to teach my dog cool tricks, yoga, cycling and playing the guitar.

• 🧠 2022: working at TUM Visual Computing & AI chair (Prof. Niessner)

  • object detection and tracking on custom autonomous driving dataset
  • using state-of-the-art GAN approaches on OpenShift cluster to develop domain transfer from synthetic simulator data to real-like images for autonomous driving

• 🚀 2020: founded WorkNow - a technology startup building the first all-in-one employee search and management solution for small businesses. Scaled up to 25 employees.

• 🚀 2016: founded addBots - a technology startup optimizing mobile conversions using a new generation of websites. Scaled up to 10 employees.

• 🎓 2013: scholarship for highly gifted students through the Max Weber Program of the Free State of Bavaria through the Bavarian Elite Support Act

• 🥇 2008: 1st place at the regional competition Jugend forscht 2008 with a Visual Basic project

• 🥈 2008: 2nd place at the state competition Jugend forscht 2008 with a Visual Basic project

I'm currently working on a few cool projects that are not quite ready for prime time. Check out my public repositories in the meantime :).

I'm always interested in pretty much any exchange about technology, philosophy or arts, so HMU: