Franziska Hinkelmann
Developer Relations Engineering Manager
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFranziska Hinkelmann is a Developer Relations Engineering Manager at Google with 15 years of experience combining low-level runtime engineering, cloud developer relations, and open-source stewardship. She pairs a Ph.D. in mathematics with hands-on V8 and Node.js core work—driving a 17× speedup for computed property names, a 17% real-world proxy performance gain, and long-standing VM fixes—and serves as a Node.js TSC member. Previously she led a 25+ person global Cloud Advocacy org at Microsoft and now works on projects like the Gemini CLI and agents while maintaining widely used tooling (teeny-request with millions of weekly downloads). Her open-source contributions span CI/CD and client libraries across Google Cloud, core runtime optimizations, and even algebraic-computation work in Macaulay2, reflecting an unusual blend of formal math, compiler-level skills, and pragmatic cloud engineering. Based in New York, she excels at turning research-grade ideas into reliable developer experiences and automated production pipelines.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (69)
dependency-management10
dockerce10
node-js10
documentations10
storages10
testing10
datastructure10
app-engine10
datastructures10
gcp10
google-cloud10
ci-cd10
javascript10
mockery10
dockers10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-getting-started
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
A tutorial for creating a complete application using Node.js on Google Cloud Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 55 commits, 194 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Franziska's commits primarily revolve around improving the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the Node.js application. They focused on fixing build failures, updating Node.js versions used in tests and end-to-end (E2E) testing environments, and correctly loading the Node Version Manager (NVM). Additionally, the user removed unnecessary configuration files and updated the deployment scripts, demonstrating strong knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
gcpappenginenode-jsgoogle-cloud-platformcloud-platform
googleapis/nodejs-storage
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Node.js client for Google Cloud Storage: unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Franziska primarily focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the Google Cloud Storage Node.js client. Their commits involved fixing system tests by ensuring correct string comparisons, removing support for uploading from a URL, and updating dependencies. They also introduced a small HTTP dependency to improve the efficiency of the client. Additionally, they contributed by updating the documentation links.
data-analyticsanalyticsjs-clientservingnode-js
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