Philipp Schaffrath
Founding Software Engineer at Inertia Labs Inc.
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Schaffrath is a founding software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building PHP web applications and full-stack features, now leading product development at Inertia Labs in the Greater Nuremberg area. He combines freelance and in-house experience—from ownCloud core contributions to enterprise eCommerce projects—demonstrating strength in both backend PHP and frontend JavaScript. An active open-source contributor, he improved theming and mime-type icon rendering in the widely used ownCloud server, showing attention to UX details that bridge client and server. Passionate about software beyond work, he treats development as his primary hobby, which drives continuous refinement of code and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung Anwendungsentwicklung at Staatl. Berufsschule III Fürth
English, German
Github Skills (11)
php10
javascript10
wp-theme10
owncloud10
wordpress-themes10
back-end-development10
front-end-development9
file-sharing9
file-copy9
data-sync9
rsync9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/core
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 62 PRs, 101 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on enhancing the filetype icon rendering and theming support within the ownCloud core. They implemented new features to support theme-specific icons, including refactoring the mimeType icon rendering process. Additionally, they updated the Javascript file responsible for mimetype list generation and fixed some test cases. These changes involved modifications to both frontend (JavaScript) and backend (PHP) code, suggesting full-stack development activity.
owncloudweb-serverjstreeself-hostingjavascript
phocus/vscode
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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