Open source cloud computing is our passion at Nextcloud GmbH and we've built a great team of experts around it. Our engineers, designers and support professionals work as an integral part of the wider Nextcloud community to give customers direct access to the most advanced, in-depth knowledge they need for success.
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Frank Karlitschek
Frank founded the ownCloud project in 2010 to put home users and enterprises back in control of their data. To bring file sync and share technology to the next level and better align to the needs of users and customers he founded Nextcloud in 2016 and has been tirelessly working to realize his vision ever since.
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Andreas Rode
Andreas studied Economics and has 20 years experience in Business Development, Partner- and Sales Management. Andreas worked for companies like Oracle, EMC, Yahoo and Google and also for start ups in the Cloud Computing and Online Marketing space.
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Fabian Liedtke
Fabian worked for various industries always close to the customer and has been in the IT industry now for several years with a focus on customer relationship management. He is passionate about innovative and new technologies and his primary goal is to help our customers to fulfill their vision.
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Edeltraut Bobb
Edeltraut studied business administration and has over 13 years experience in domestic, international sales and the open source community. She believes customer satisfaction is based on bringing great customer service, delivered by a caring and friendly person, promptly, with the support of a practical problem-solving process. Edeltraut provides excellent administrative support to our sales team and to any busy sales operation.
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Nina Cercy
Nina studied Business and Management at HEC Paris. Nina is specialized in GDPR compliance and cybersecurity. She works as an Account Manager on the French Market and she is based in Lyon. She co-directed Numérique, reprendre le contrôle in 2016.
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Olivier Paroz
Olivier studied Economics and Information and Communications Systems Management at the University of Geneva. He contributed to ownCloud for several years and has close to 20 years experience in Consulting, Business Development and large scale deployments. He has helped customers in a broad range of industies both in the private and public sector, with a focus on open source, usability, security and privacy.
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Marija Puselja
Originally from Croatia, Marija has a degree in Journalism and Public Relations. She finds her inspiration in the strength of visual delivery of information through photography, as much as she admires the creativity of witty and intelligent writing and finally, a well-executed layout and design.
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Björn Schießle
Björn is a computer scientist, graduated at the University of Stuttgart. He conducted research in the area of cloud robotics before he joined ownCloud in 2012 and later co-founded Nextcloud. Björn has a deep knowledge about all technical and legal aspects of Free and Open Source Software. After working for several years as a software engineer, he uses his in-depth knowledge to provide the best possible solutions to our customers.
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Matthias Wobben
Matthias worked for nine years as a 3rd level IT Engineer and IT Administrator. Acting as a broker between the customer, the Sales and Engineering department, his main focus is to give our clients the best possible advice. Matthias is passionate about innovative technology, enabling clients to collaborate securely while retaining ease-of-use.
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Markus Windecker
Markus has over 19 years experience as Account and Partner manager at HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Aruba.
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Sascha Wiswedel
Sascha has worked as account manager, sales engineer and application developer in the software industry and in the public sector. He is specialized in transformation and migration of data and processes. Sascha likes finding pragmatic solutions for grown environments and infrastructures.
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Patrick Walther
Patrick was co-founder of struktur AG in 2000, responsible for sales and finance. He held several sales and marketing positions at IBM and Oracle, adding up to more than two decades of experience in the IT industry.
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Jos Poortvliet
Jos graduated in Psychology from the University of Utrecht and did project and service level management at Royal Bank of Scottland, KPN and the Dutch Department of Education. He has over a decade open source marketing and PR experience, previously working as Community Manager for SUSE Linux and ownCloud Inc.
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Marinela Gogo
Marinela studied Business Informatics in the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana. She got involved in open source in 2015, first by contributing to open source projects and then, in 2016, she started co-organizing events or conferences in Tirana to promote software freedom, open knowledge and the importance of open source in the public sector.
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Roeland Douma
Roeland has been working on improving private file sharing since 2015. He has a MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, having done research for his PhD in cache partitioning for real time systems. He is in charge of our HackerOne program and works on various security hardenings.
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Vanessa Steeg
Vanessa has a degree in Media Design and qualifications as Executive Assistant in various languages (German, English and Spanish). Her experience ranges from project management to graphic design, marketing and communication.
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Jan-Christoph Borchardt
Jan-Christoph is responsible for design on ownCloud since early 2011, continuing at Nextcloud. He pushes forward better design in open source through founding and contributing to several projects, giving talks, working with universities, and fostering the Open Source Design collective.
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Brian Krause
Brian has a degree as IT-Systemkaufmann, decades of professional experience in IT Customer Service, Support and Sales and joined Struktur AG in 2010 as Customer Care representative. As first contact person for Nextcloud, Struktur AG and Spreed he makes sure you get the best possible support.
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Marius Blüm
Marius was active in Nextcloud since day one, contributing in various forms to documentation, website, support and more. He is studying and works part time.
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Arthur Schiwon
Arthur Schiwon has been working on ownCloud since 2010, developing state of the art user management and directory support. Before he has been SEO project manager at construktiv and was active in the Kubuntu community, still being a Free and Open Source Software enthusiast and privacy activist.
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Barthélémy Briand
Barthélémy is a software engineer specialized in front-end development. He cares about simplicity and ease of use and likes to create a smooth user experience for everyone. He has been part of the contacts and design team since 2016.
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Camila San Martin Ayres
Camila is from Brazil and has worked as front-end developer, with C#, Java and even Delphi. She got into open source doing C++/Qt development in the KDE community. After moving to Germany she worked with PHP, Ruby on Rails, AngluarJS, Go and Drupal 7. She's now a desktop client developer at Nextcloud but just might do other things than C++ sometimes.
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Christoph Wurst
Christoph has been contributing to ownCloud since 2014. He has a master's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
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Daniel Calviño Sánchez
Daniel has a master's degree in Computer Engineering. He has been developing all kind of free software projects for several years, including KDE applications, web applications, low-level Android components and even Linux kernel drivers, and now he is applying his experience and passion for free software in the front-end and testing areas of Nextcloud.
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Dirk Farin
Dirk graduated from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and received his PhD from the University of Technology in Eindhoven. He worked on MPEG-4 video coding, panoramic video visualiation and compression for 3-D television at universities and research institutions in Europe and the United States and currently works on an open source H.265 decoding/encoding library.
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Georg Ehrke
Georg Ehrke studied computer science at University of Rostock and is the maintainer of the Calendar app since the very beginning. He's been doing ownCloud, now Nextcloud, for many years and knows both the front and backend code well.
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Greta Doçi
Greta has finished her master studies in University of Tirana for Information and Communication Technology. She is an Albanian long-time Wikipedia contributor and Nextcloud advocate. She joined our front-end developer team after completing a joint internship with Wikimedia Deutschland and Nextcloud.
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Ivan Sein
Ivan graduated as CS engineer from the University of the Basque Country and has been developing the Spreed.ME iOS app since 2013. He has also been working on server monitoring and iOS support.
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Joachim Bauch
Joachim graduated computer science in Stuttgart and has been committing to various open source projects for a long time, including Google's WebRTC project and was core developer for the Red5 streaming server between 2005 and 2008.
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Joas Schilling
Joas has been involved in open source for over a decade, being a core member of the phpBB™ developer team and has been working on ownCloud code since late 2013. He graduated from the University of Stuttgart and developed the Notifications and Activities technology in Nextcloud.
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Julius Härtl
Julius is involved in the Nextcloud community since the beginning, working on frontend and backend development of the server and apps like Deck. He is currently doing his master's degree in computer science at the University of Würzburg.
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Marino Faggiana
Marino studied telecommunications in Vicenza. While studing engineering at Padua University he founded software company T.W.S. He is the principal author of Crypto Cloud, a popular iOS application which became the base for the Nextcloud iOS app. He is fond of microelectronics, telecommunications and information technology.
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Marco Ambrosini
Marco is a front end developer that cares deeply about design and user experience. He is part of the talk and design teams.
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Mario Danic
Mario is part of the Nextcloud Android application development team. He studied Informatics and Organization and has been leading Libburnia and Gnomebaker, popular open source projects, for over a decade.
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Maxence Lange
Maxence has extensive experience in PHP and Java/android development as well as database and network management. He is the principal author and maintainer of the Nextant full-text search app.
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Michael Schuster
Michael Schuster has been working in C, C++ and web tech for over 20 years, doing game development, docker and Linux work and more. He is passionate about free and open software and control about your own data.
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Morris Jobke
Morris has worked on ownCloud since early 2013. He has worked with most components of the server and uses his experience now at Nextcloud to troubleshoot and create fixes for issues in large scale installations.
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Robin Appelman
Robin studied computer science and is highly experienced in scaling file storage and handling systems. He has been working on ownCloud code since 2010 and has, at one point or another, touched code in every corner.
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Tobias Kaminsky
Tobias studied Sports and Computer Science in Darmstadt, is an experienced Java/Scala engineer and has a background in database development at a research institute for applied training science. He has been contributing to the Android app since 2013.