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Manuel Schmid

Fullstack Developer

Building modern web applications with a focus on exceptional user experiences and cutting-edge technologies.

About Me

Software Developer with a passion for creating elegant solutions

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Experience

Four roles — from bootcamp to product teams.

Nov 2023 – PresentAppenweier · Remote

Software Developer

SYNDIKAT7 GmbH

ReactSpring BootDesign systems

Built frontend features and interfaces for major-client web applications with React and Spring Boot.
Co-designed an automotive dashboard and a document-management app to cut manual work and errors.
Contributed to a trainee platform for clearer content and process management.

Dec 2022 – Oct 2023Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Junior Software Developer

T-Systems onsite GmbH

JavaSpring BootDockerKubernetes

Onboarded to Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, and agile delivery.
Helped build a remote Docker service used by employees day to day.

Feb 2022 – Jul 2022Hamburg · Remote

IT-Consultant — Development focus

PRGH GmbH

HTMLCSSJavaScriptReact

Coached junior developers on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.
Built tools with no/low-code approaches where they fit best.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021Cologne · Remote

Trainee Web Development

neue fische — School and Pool for Digital Talent

Web appCapstone project

540 hours of hands-on practice with a self-built web app as the capstone (digital Gesellenstück).
MyStudy helps tutoring schools manage students, teachers, groups, and subjects.

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Projects

A selection of my recent work

Fullstack

ApplyX

Local-first job-application tracker

A local-first job-application tracker that reads your own mailbox over IMAP and understands it with a local Ollama model — no cloud LLM, no email forwarding, nothing ever leaving your machine.

TypeScriptReactFastifyPostgreSQL

Fullstack

FingerMatch

Forensic minutiae matching — real computer vision

Two fingerprints, one classical CV pipeline: detect minutiae and singular points, align them, and compute a match score — no black-box model.

PythonFastAPIOpenCVscikit-image

Fullstack

PitchLab

Football predictions with a custom model

A from-scratch prediction model — Poisson attack/defence, Dixon-Coles, Elo and a Monte-Carlo tournament simulation — on api-football data. No black box: every probability is derived and checked.

PythonFastAPINumPyReact

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Blog

Insights, tutorials, and thoughts on modern web development, AI, and technology.

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Cloud AI vs. Local AI: A Privacy Decision, Not Just a Cost One

Everyone compares cloud and local LLMs on price and quality. The more important question is where your data goes — and the last two years of retention orders, fines, and leaks make the answer concrete.

Why I Built ApplyX: A Local-First Job-Application Tracker

A build log for ApplyX — a job-application tracker that reads your inbox over IMAP and understands it with a local Ollama model, so none of your application data ever leaves your machine.

After the Vibe: Where AI Coding Actually Breaks Down

A year of hard data on AI-assisted development, from the METR productivity study to the Veracode security numbers, and an honest look at where "trust the vibes" stops working.

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