Christoph Wurst
Team Lead at Nextcloud GmbH
Retzbach, Lower Austria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Wurst is a Team Lead and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale open source collaboration software at Nextcloud. He blends backend PHP expertise with full-stack and front-end work across apps like Contacts, Calendar, Mail and Talk, while also owning documentation and security-related tasks such as app certificate management and two-factor authentication. As lead of the groupware team he balances hands-on contributions to Nextcloud Server with mentoring and product-focused delivery. His open-source footprint includes core server architecture, web framework improvements (gotham) and UI refinements, reflecting an unusual mix of low-level protocol, security, and UX interests. Based in Lower Austria, he holds an MS in Computer Software Engineering and is known for pragmatic fixes—like correcting CSR key lengths—that keep large ecosystems shipping securely.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaEngineer's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Engineer's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at HTL Hollabrunn
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Github Skills (58)
javascript10
restructuredtext10
handlebars10
back-end-development10
imap10
sphinx10
calendars10
async10
technical-writing10
css10
open-source10
rs10
ui-design10
phpunit10
uid10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/documentation
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
📘 Nextcloud documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:648 reviews, 615 commits, 729 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the documentation of the Nextcloud documentation repository. Their commits focused on correcting typos, revamping existing sections, adding new content, and documenting new features such as two-factor authentication, the OCS sharee API, and the contacts menu. The changes encompassed updates to the user manual, admin manual, and developer manual, indicating a broad responsibility for maintaining and improving the documentation's comprehensiveness and clarity.
manualnextcloudsphinx
nextcloud/mail
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
💌 Mail app for Nextcloud
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:158 releases, 2832 reviews, 5045 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the back-end of the Nextcloud Mail application. Their commits involved implementing new features like handling loading errors and creating a crash reporter. They fixed bugs, particularly in the background synchronization process, and added features related to message handling, like forwarding. The user also worked on the underlying framework by modifying the API responses, and improving the handling of database content.
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