TommySchmucker

Employement

I am employed part-time at Facts & Files Digital Services. The company is responsible for transcribathon.eu, a crowdsourcing and citizen science project for describing, annotating, transcribing, and georeferencing historical collections. My role involves developing and maintaining APIs (PHP and Java), databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL), and DevOps operations (Continuous Integration, Docker deployments, etc.).

Freelancing

I’m not assigned to a project at the moment and available for hire.

Personal

Currently I’m working on different personal projects in parallel:

• I am coding a FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) calculator. in JavaScript. All the existent calulators seems to be rather complex or missing details for my needs (FIRE calculator)
• Additionally I’m working on a knit designer as PWA that I can use when I design or change some patterns for my knitting projects.
• And since I’m switching my cloud stuff to a Nextcloud instance I’m programming a sync manager with TUI and CLI for Linux. It will be done in Go language, so I can learn that on the way.
• I am constantly enhancing the UI and features of lebenuntergsegeln.de and sailingpathways.com

Technology

• Go Programming Lanuage
• LLMs and dockerized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Genertation) systems
• Dockerized Deployments on Cloud Server Systems
• Europeana Data Model (EDM) specifications in a JSON-LD representation

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Finnish

Other

• Eletrical systems on boats
• Knitting

Martha Wells, City of Bones.

Current location: Dublin, Ireland

The days on the Isle of Man were great. We really loved it there and explored the island by steam train.
With a intermediate step in Ardglass (Northern Ireland) we sailed to Dublin. It was a long stretch and we had all weather: In the beginning we had a smooth sailing , later we had to use the motor because the wind died and just before entering the Dublin bay the picked up to 20 knots against us and against the running tide. So we got some uncomfortable waves for the last 2 hours.