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 geo-referencing historical collections. My work involves developing and maintaining different API (PHP and Java) and databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL).

Freelancing

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

Personal

I am coding a backtester in JavaScript, that can consume some historical stock/asset data and shows which strategy would have performed best.

Technology

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

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Finnish

Other

• Eletrical systems on boats

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time – The Rising Shadow.

Current location: Kyrksæterøra, Norway.

After a month in Trondheim with the best autumn weather you can have the weather is getting unstable and nasty. The storms are more frequent and we let the first (named Amy) pass by in Trondheim. Only reluctantly we leaved Trondheim for our winter stay in Kristiansund. On the way south we took shelter from another big low pressure with promised 40er wind gusts. Best bet for this in the area is Kyrksæterøra, which is located 12 miles deep in a fjord.

The first two days we had nice sailing conditions. First day was warm and sunny and we gently run 4 knots before the wind with just the genoa towards Hasselvika. The second day brought a cloudy sky and changeble winds. Either motoring or a broad reaching sail with nearly 8 knots SOG. On the third day and last leg it was supposed to be no wind at all and rainy. But in the fjords we experienced then catabatics winds falling down the mountains reaching 30 something knots. Around the corner nearing the harbour it dropped to 5 knots again.