Stephan Abalde
Files Director at Nextcloud
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Abalde is a software leader and full-stack developer with over a decade of e-commerce experience, now directing Files, IDP, Desktop and Mobile Client teams at Nextcloud from Munich. He combines deep PHP and web stack expertise (Symfony, Laravel, Shopware, xt:commerce) with modern frontend work in Vue.js and Node.js, plus hands-on DevOps skills using Docker, Jenkins and Unix tooling. Previously he scaled and led development teams as Head of Development and Team Lead, moving from shop engineering to platform-focused product leadership. An active contributor to Nextcloud itself, he improved search functionality and refactored backend code in the widely used nextcloud/server project. He’s equally comfortable architecting backend services and shipping polished frontend UX, and often bridges gaps between product, ops and engineering. His MEng in Informatik underpins a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to building maintainable systems.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Informatik, Master of Engineering - MEng Informatik at Technische Hochschule Wildau
Github Skills (8)
open-source10
php10
nextcloud10
algorithm9
algorithms9
phpunit8
user-interface7
javascript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/server
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 107 PRs, 105 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily focused on enhancing the search functionality within the Nextcloud settings application. Their contributions included adding a new user filter to search and implementing a regular expression to prevent filter collisions, improving the overall user experience. They also updated dependencies and recompiled assets. Further changes involved removing unused properties and refactoring code.
owncloudfile-sharingcollaborationsharingdecentralized
sorbaugh/projectviewer
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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