Tobias Knöppler
Software Engineer at Otto Group one.O
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Knöppler is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience, combining freelance and enterprise work to deliver reliable cloud-native, CI/CD and automation solutions. Based in Hanover, he has focused at Otto Group and one.O since 2019 on public cloud, security and DevOps practices while maintaining a strong open-source presence. He maintains popular Nextcloud ecosystem projects—contributing back-end, deployment and monitoring improvements such as Prometheus integration for NextcloudPi—which reflects his emphasis on usability and secure defaults. Passionate about ethical, participatory software, Tobias blends hands-on engineering with community stewardship, and often smooths complex deployments into simple, auditable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik at Universität Hamburg
German, English
Github Skills (15)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
apache9
nextcloud9
debian9
prometheus8
networking8
devops8
arm7
automations7
raspberry-pi7
automation7
security6
php5
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/nextcloudpi
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
📦 Build code for NextcloudPi: Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Rock64, curl installer...
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 61 reviews, 536 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to improving the NextcloudPi project's configuration and functionality. They focused on enhancing the user experience and security by preventing password saving and adding an option to apply Samba shares only to a Nextcloud group. Additionally, the user implemented Prometheus metrics for system monitoring, including setting up the necessary configuration and integration with Apache. They also addressed bugs and streamlined the deployment and update processes, with a focus on simplifying the installation.
raspberry-piodroiddocker-imagenextcloudraspbian
theCalcaholic/bash-utils
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 127 commits, 94 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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