Peter Prochaska is a technically minded project leader with nearly three decades of professional experience and nine years focused on IT delivery and engineering. Currently Technischer Projektleiter at B1 Systems and previously a team manager at NETFORMIC, he blends IT management, negotiation skills, and hands-on backend development to turn complex customer requirements into practical, value-generating solutions. His open-source contributions to the well-known ownCloud core demonstrate attention to security and stability—fixing user enumeration, XSS issues, and hardening authentication and error handling. Peter prioritizes alignment between personal and company values, fosters diverse perspectives within teams, and consistently pursues measurable outcomes. Based in Schwabach, Germany, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to project leadership that marries strategy with code-level improvements.
:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:49 commits, 41 PRs, 69 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the stability and security of the ownCloud core by addressing user enumeration vulnerabilities and fixing unit tests. Their contributions include modifying code related to user authentication, email sending, and error handling within the lost password functionality. They also addressed XSS vulnerabilities and refactored code to use array_map for safer file handling. Furthermore, the user made changes to the files app to improve output in error pages and addressed issues related to the DAV meta endpoint.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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Peter Prochaska - Technischer Projektleiter at B1 Systems