Markus Goetz
Co-Founder at woboq
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Goetz is a seasoned C++ and Qt engineer with 23 years of experience who co-founded Woboq in Berlin and continues to lead its product and engineering efforts. He combines deep systems and network expertise—HTTP, WebDAV, caching and external storage integrations—with full-stack sensibilities, having shipped a mobile-ready code browser UI as well as backend optimizations. Markus has a strong open-source footprint, contributing performance, stability and network-related fixes to high-profile projects like ownCloud and Nextcloud desktop. His career includes hands-on Qt work at Nokia and a software engineering diploma from the University of Stuttgart, reflecting long-term, pragmatic mastery of cross-platform desktop and web integration. Less obvious: he’s been programming since fourth grade, which helps explain his rare mix of low-level protocol knowledge and user-facing polish.
23 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium BöblingenDiploma, Software Engineering, Diploma, Software Engineering at University of Stuttgart
German, English, French, Norwegian
Github Skills (36)
git10
caching10
filesystem10
javascript10
c-language10
sqlite10
jquery10
css10
http10
responsive-design10
responsiveness10
cmake10
c1110
responsive10
networking10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/client
Oct 2012 - Nov 2019
🖥️ Desktop Syncing Client for ownCloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 919 commits, 392 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Markus's commits primarily focused on enhancing the ownCloud client's functionality by implementing features related to handling HTTP cookies and adding support for setting HTTP timeouts. They also addressed build-related issues, enabling compilation with static iniparser and sqlite. The commits reveal a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the client and integrating with back-end services.
owncloudcppdesktopserver-syncsync-client
KDAB/codebrowser
Nov 2013 - Jul 2018
Woboq CodeBrowser
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily contributed to the frontend and UI aspects of the Woboq Code Browser. They improved the directory index by displaying classes, enums, and other elements. A significant portion of their work focused on making the code browser mobile-ready, addressing Google Mobile checker complaints. The user also implemented and refined the definitions and history sidebars, enhancing usability. Furthermore, they modified CSS files and JavaScript to enhance the appearance and performance of the browser.
phpwoboqclangllvm
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