Meet Florian
An experienced architect connecting business needs with technical delivery.
Florian Antonescu is the founder and Principal Solution Architect of Norify GmbH. He brings more than 17 years of experience across integration, distributed systems, workflow automation and cloud platforms.
He works with business and engineering teams to clarify requirements, weigh architectural options and put decisions into practice.
17+ years of IT experience
Principal Solution & Integration Architect
PhD in distributed systems
TOGAF certified
Selected career experience
2024–present
Norify
Founder and Principal Solution Architect. Designs and implements banking solutions across onboarding and KYC, Flowable mortgage automation, open banking, document management and transaction processing. Introduced automated quality controls, semantic versioning and CI/CD practices.
2022–2024
eFrame
Solution Architect, office of the CTO. Led architecture and implementation of an Azure developer platform for applications serving more than 10,000 customers and supporting over 100 developers. Defined deployment patterns, API management and GitOps workflows.
2019–2022
NatWest/RBS
Solution Integration Architect. Designed and led implementation of Kafka event streaming for more than 70 microservices and 100 APIs. Defined core-banking integration architecture serving more than 50,000 private-banking users, reviewed code and architecture, and mentored developers.
2015–2019
Avaloq
Senior Java Software Engineer and Product Owner of the Front Development Kit Core. Developed Kafka-based Business Data Events, secure REST/SOAP frameworks, banking APIs and distributed session caching.
2010–2015
SAP
Research Associate, PhD Student and Assistant Researcher. Research and development in cloud computing and distributed systems, including SLA-driven infrastructure management and automated scaling of cloud applications.
How Florian works
Understand requirements with the people responsible for the business process. Discuss trade-offs, align stakeholders and review architecture with engineering teams. Guide implementation so decisions remain connected to the intended outcome.
Florian’s earlier career experience
These projects were delivered during Florian’s employment at NatWest/RBS and eFrame.
Florian’s career experience · NatWest/RBS · 2019–2022
Real-time integration architecture
Business need
Make information available across advisory, payments and client onboarding.
Context and constraints
An event-streaming platform supporting more than 70 microservices and 100 APIs; core-banking integration architecture serving more than 50,000 private-banking users.
Florian’s role
Florian designed and led implementation of the real-time event-streaming platform as Solution Integration Architect.
Architectural decisions
Kafka and Kafka Connect provided event streaming. Change data capture supported the API and core-banking integration architecture.
Implementation contribution
He translated stakeholder requirements into solution designs, reviewed architecture and code, mentored developers, established Kafka tooling and designed Docker and Kubernetes continuous-delivery pipelines.
Documented result
An event-streaming platform supporting more than 70 microservices and 100 APIs, alongside core-banking integration architecture serving more than 50,000 private-banking users.
Florian’s career experience · eFrame · 2022–2024
Developer platform architecture
Business need
Give development teams consistent ways to provision infrastructure, configure applications and release changes.
Context and constraints
Applications serving more than 10,000 customers, supported by over 100 full-stack developers with shared platform requirements.
Florian’s role
As Solution Architect in the office of the CTO, Florian led architecture and implementation of an internal developer platform on Microsoft Azure.
Architectural decisions
Reusable deployment patterns used Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD and Bitbucket Pipelines, with Sealed Secrets/SOPS for secret management. Kafka supported asynchronous integration.
Implementation contribution
He designed API management with Tyk, Keycloak and Kubernetes, worked with product and development teams, and reviewed architecture while standardising provisioning, configuration and release workflows.
Documented result
Standardised provisioning, configuration and release workflows. GitOps and CI/CD automation improved platform reliability, security, deployment consistency and developer productivity.
Education and qualifications
Doctoral research
PhD in Communication and Distributed Systems, University of Bern, 2011–2015, magna cum laude. Research on SLA-driven management and scaling of distributed applications in cloud computing systems.
Architecture and platforms
TOGAF 9.2 Certified (2021) · Avaloq Certified Professional (2015) · Flowable Foundation Certification (2023) · Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-104 (2023).
Selected further training
Operations for Apache Kafka, Confluent (2019) · iSAQB Scalable Web Architecture and cloud-native development (2018) · iSAQB Flexible Architecture Models / Microservices (2017) · AWS Cloud Architect and Cloud DevOps Engineer nanodegrees (2021).
Continued learning
Google Project Management (2024) · Generative AI and Azure Generative AI Engineer nanodegrees (2025) · Agentic AI Nanodegree (2026).
Ways to collaborate
You work with Norify GmbH. We agree the scope around your priorities and the team you already have.
Focused assessment
An architecture or integration assessment to clarify the landscape, key decisions and next steps.
Senior architecture support within your team
Work alongside stakeholders and engineering teams to align decisions and guide implementation.
Integration or automation workstream
Architecture guidance or delivery responsibility for a defined integration or process-automation workstream.
