Florian Schleich

Florian has been a consumer and implementer of SMPTE Standards for almost 20 years and a contributor to the Standards Community since 2013. He served the Standards Community as document editor, DG/WG/TC chair, Standards Director and Standards Vice President. His efforts were acknowledged with the 2023 Excellence in Standards Award.

 

Florian started his professional career at Fraunhofer IIS in Germany, where he developed software to process Digital Cinema Packages and supported European film archives in their efforts to adopt digital preservation workflows. He then moved to Los Angeles to interface with local studios and production/post companies to better understand their needs and to position Fraunhofer’s light field production tools and IMF packaging solutions. Since joining Netflix in 2018, he held different positions managing technology partnerships and standards engagement and he is currently a Senior Software Engineer in Netflix’s Encoding Technologies team. Florian has Dipl.-Inf. (FH) and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science.