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

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

Andrea Wulf, Die Vermessung des Himmels.

Current location: Kristiansund, Norway.

On the way to our winter harbour, we stopped in Hellandsjøen. We stayed there for more than a week waiting for the bad weather to clear up. Unfortunately, there was nothing much to explore and to do. There was only one hiking path, no town and no supermarket. On the other hand it rained a lot. To do some grocery shopping, we had to take the bus to Kyrksæterøra, where we had moored previously. However, the bay was quite nice, and thanks to the weather, we saw lots of rainbows across the bay.

After a week, we finally set off again. Our next intermediate destination was Valsøya. However, the currents and wind were in our favour, and we consistently made over 6 knots. We decided to go to Kristiansund directly, and we should arrive before dark. Although it wasn’t forecast, we were actually able to sail with only the genoa for around an hour. In the harbour, we had a nice surprise: A Norwegian sailor whom we met in Arendal six months ago was also in the harbour and will also be staying there over the winter.