Hi there! 👋🏻 —

I'm Thorsten, project manager, hands-on software architect, father, and husband - all in one. With over 20 years of IT experience, I work for Capgemini in Stuttgart. As a software engineer at heart, I utilize my technical, UI/UX design, and marketing skills to work on side projects in website creation and e-commerce.

On this site, I share some of my projects and ideas, as well as tips and tricks related to tech topics and beyond.

Big Update: New Features on My Blog!

September 1, 2024

I'm excited to announce major updates to my blog! New features include self-hosted tools like cal.com for scheduling, chatwoot.com for live chat, Remark42 for comments, Listmonk for newsletters, vanilla-cookieconsent, and Plausible for analytics. Powered by Next.js, TypeScript, and hosted on Vercel.

Code Block Cheat Sheet

November 19, 2023

This blog uses code blocks to display code samples. The Rehype Pretty Code plugin provides beautiful code blocks for your MD & MDX files.

Temperature sensors with display and alerting for marine aquarium

November 6, 2023

In marine fishkeeping the water temperature belongs to the important and easy to monitor water parameters that can be monitored electronically very easy. In order to monitor the temperature I build a small device with two temperature sensors that will constantly monitor the temperature at two different places in the aquarium.

GitHub Pages with Custom Domain using another Domain Provider

April 4, 2023

When I was trying to configure the custom domain for my blog on GitHub I got stuck while setting it up via the Github Pages configuration. No error was show and the creation of SSL certificates displayed a progress that never finished.

Qualifications & Skills

Company
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Role
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Date
soon
Company
Project Management Professional - PMP
Role
Project Management Institute
Date
2020
Company
Professional Scrum Master - PSM I
Role
Scrum.org
Date
2016

Work Experience

Company
Capgemini
Role
Software Architect / Program Manager /
Location Head
Date
2016 now
Company
Westernacher Solutions
Role
Software Architect / Principal Consultant ECM
Date
2010 2016
Company
Westernacher Consulting
Role
Member Of The Supervisory Board
Date
2013 2016
Company
diconium
Role
Web Developer / Java Software Engineer
Date
2008 2010
Company
Capgemini
Role
Consultant / Java Software Engineer
Date
2006 2008
Company
Fresenius Medical Care
Role
Java Software Engineer
Date
2004 2006