Morris Jobke
Backend Engineer at Jimdo
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
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Morris Jobke is a backend engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling open source collaboration platforms, currently driving backend work at Jimdo and formerly co-founding and shaping Nextcloud’s architecture and release process. He blends deep backend expertise with hands-on front-end and full-stack contributions—ranging from certificate management and media app frontends to UI polish in large PHP/JS codebases. Morris has significant experience working with customers on large-scale deployments (including onsite consulting for million-user planning) and translating operational feedback into more robust, admin-friendly platform designs. An active open-source contributor, his commits span Nextcloud and ownCloud repos across code, docs, and app ecosystems, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science at Technische Universität Chemnitz
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
restructuredtext10
cert10
audio-playback10
css10
rs10
ui-design10
php10
certificate10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html10
appstore10
spree10
documentation10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/app-certificate-requests
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
🎖 Repository for requesting app certificates
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 334 commits, 152 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Morris contributed significantly to the repository by adding and modifying certificate-related files, specifically CSRs and CRT files. They appear to be responsible for generating and managing certificates for different components, as evidenced by the "Add" and "Fix" commit messages and the presence of files like "folderplayer.csr", "defaultlinkopen.csr", and "video_converter.csr". The commits also include a script (a.php) for verifying certificates. This indicates involvement in the core functionalities related to app certificate requests within the Nextcloud ecosystem.
appstorecertificatescertificatenextcloud
nextcloud/documentation
Jun 2016 - Jun 2021
📘 Nextcloud documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:172 reviews, 2196 commits, 1739 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Morris's contributions primarily focused on updating and creating documentation within the Nextcloud documentation repository. The commits include fixing typos, clarifying wording, adding images and restructuring the organization of existing pages. The user also added documentation about the new menu and updated links.
manualnextcloudsphinx
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