Thorsten Schminkel

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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.

Photo by Thorsten Schminkel
Photo by Thorsten Schminkel
Photo by Thorsten Schminkel
Photo by Thorsten Schminkel
Photo by Thorsten Schminkel

Big Update: New Features on My Blog!

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

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

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

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.

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Qualifications & Skills

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

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