Lukas Schaefer
Software Enginering Intern at Nextcloud
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Schaefer is a budding software engineer and incoming Computer Science student at Michigan State University with five years of hands-on coding experience driven by self-directed projects and open-source contributions. Currently interning on Nextcloud’s integration team and formerly a backend contributor to Immich—a high-performance self-hosted photo/video manager—he has implemented features like video format support, thumbnail fixes, and face-merging with similarity sorting. Comfortable across Python, Git, and backend fundamentals (with multiple Meta certificates), Lukas pairs classroom AP CS experience and a Raspberry Pi–sparked curiosity with practical learning as a course learning assistant. He publishes his projects openly on GitHub, enjoys collaborating on open source, and brings a thoughtful mix of technical rigor, teamwork, and continuous-learning mindset to early-career engineering roles.
5 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Canton High SchoolWashtenaw Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
German, English, French
Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
apidoc10
typescript10
nestjs10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
server10
server-side10
database-design9
video-encoder8
video-encoding8
transcoding8
transcode8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
immich-app/immich
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 PRs, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on improving the server-side functionality of the immich application. Their contributions included bug fixes related to search suggestions and thumbnail generation for videos. They also added support for new video formats and implemented face merging features with similarity-based sorting. These changes involved modifications to backend code, repository structures, and API definitions.
videosmobile-appvideobackup-solutionbackup
Lukasdotcom/lukasdotcom
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:29 commits, 368 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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