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 FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) calculator. in JavaScript. All the existent calulators seems to be rather complex or missing details for my needs.
I am constantly enhancing the UI and features of lebenuntergsegeln.de.

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
• Knitting

John Goodlad, The Salt Road.

Current location: Kristiansund, Norway.

We are still moored in the guest harbour in Kristiansund. The temparatures dropped way below freezing (-7°C) with the beginning of the new year. But the humidity is rather low. So the boat and we are doing well. We are heating up the boat and we are enjoying the winter and the snowy landscape here in Norway.

I recently discovered how fun and relaxing knitting can be. And I really like the Norwegian patterns. So currently I am trying to learn knitting and I am in the making of a woolen hat and a sweater.