Hi, I'm Thomas Pöhlmann

Software
Architect

Turning complex problems into elegant and scalable systems.

react React
tmux Tmux
zsh Zsh
CSS3 CSS3
golang Golang
tailwindcss Tailwindcss
typeScript TypeScript
next Next
javaScript JavaScript
postgresql Postgresql
HTML5 HTML5
MCP MCP
astro Astro
lua Lua
neovim Neovim
angular Angular
python Python
nodejs Nodejs
bash Bash
nestjs Nestjs
git Git
react React
tmux Tmux
zsh Zsh
CSS3 CSS3
golang Golang
tailwindcss Tailwindcss
typeScript TypeScript
next Next
javaScript JavaScript
postgresql Postgresql
HTML5 HTML5
MCP MCP
astro Astro
lua Lua
neovim Neovim
angular Angular
python Python
nodejs Nodejs
bash Bash
nestjs Nestjs
git Git
react React
tmux Tmux
zsh Zsh
CSS3 CSS3
golang Golang
tailwindcss Tailwindcss
typeScript TypeScript
next Next
javaScript JavaScript
postgresql Postgresql
HTML5 HTML5
MCP MCP
astro Astro
lua Lua
neovim Neovim
angular Angular
python Python
nodejs Nodejs
bash Bash
nestjs Nestjs
git Git

What I do?

  • Architecture & Systems Design
    • •Design and implementation of scalable microservice architectures
    • •Technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration
  • Application Development
    • •AI-powered applications using autonomous agents, RAG, and MCP
    • •Modern web and mobile apps (SPAs, Android, Wear OS)
    • •API design, full-stack development, and system integration
  • Performance Optimization
    • •System profiling, benchmarking, and fine-tuning
    • •Improving reliability, throughput, and developer experience
  • Developer Tooling
    • •Neovim plugins (e.g. 'nx', 'exec', ...)
    • •Fast and intuitive CLI tools
  • Operations & DevOps
    • •Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
    • •CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Blog

Recent posts

OSC 52

Copy from a devcontainer or SSH session to your local clipboard

Copying text from a devcontainer or SSH session to your local clipboard is annoying. OSC 52 is an ANSI escape sequence that lets your terminal update its clipboard, so a short shell function turns any remote output into local clipboard content.

September 18, 2026
#terminal

Managing multiple opencode sessions in tmux

A tmux picker that shows what your AI agents are doing

When you run multiple opencode sessions across tmux, keeping track of which is busy and which is waiting for input becomes a problem. Here is how I built a status server and tmux picker to solve it.

September 07, 2026
#tmux , #ai , #opencode

Neovim 0.12.5

:restart now takes you back to where you left off

Neovim 0.12.5 is a maintenance release with one genuinely useful change: :restart now saves and restores your session, so restarting picks up right where you left off. A quick rundown of what changed and what to check before upgrading.

August 27, 2026
#neovim

Vibe Coding

48 hours of building a game at the Encode Vibe Coding Hackathon under the AI-only rule

Four of us spent a weekend in London under one strict rule: build everything with AI. Here is the story of the Encode Vibe Coding Hackathon and what came out of 48 intense hours.

June 25, 2026
#ai , #godot
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Projects

My work

Word Clock Watch Face

Word Clock Watch Face

Done | Wear OS, Kotlin, Android
Taskline

Taskline

Done | Typescript
Talence

Talence

Discontinued | Typescript, Next.js
OPT3001

OPT3001

Done | Python, Embedded
Passline

Passline

Done | Golang
Qlock Table

Qlock Table

Done | C++, Embedded

nx.nvim

foil.nvim

exec.nvim

pickers.nvim

Neovim Plugins

lua
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Skills

Skills

Backend

Node.js Express/Nest.js Golang Python Rust Lua

CI/CD

Gitlab Runner Github Actions

Embedded

ESP8266 C

Frontend

Typescript Angular React HTMX

Infrastructure

Docker Kubernetes Azure Terraform Ansible

Mobile

Kotlin Wear OS Flutter

Experience

Jobs

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Mannheim

Jul 2025 – Present

Software Architect & Associate Manager | Accenture (via acquisition of Camelot ITLab GmbH)

Deep Research Architecture & SME Advisory
Industrial & Automotive 2026 – Present
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Guide the architecture of a deep-research extension to an existing RAG knowledge platform built on Azure OpenAI, MongoDB, and multi-agent orchestration.
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Define hybrid retrieval strategies combining query decomposition, iterative multi-hop retrieval, and selective delegation to existing specialist agents.
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Design structured findings and evidence ledgers with bounded working memory to support evidence-based synthesis, traceable citations, and explicit handling of conflicting information.
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Establish research budgets and stopping criteria that balance coverage, confidence, latency, and API cost.
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Define benchmarks and claim-level evaluation for groundedness, completeness, citation accuracy, and operational performance, comparing the extension with the existing RAG system.
Client AI Solutions & Advisory
Cross-industry 2026 – Present
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Develop and evaluate AI prototypes for real client use cases using open-source LLMs, OCR, and vision-language models, demonstrating solution approaches to clients and management.
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Advise clients on AI technology choices and translate prototype findings into practical solution architectures.
Enterprise LLM & Knowledge Architecture
Financial Services (major German bank) 2025 – Present
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Design and implement LLM solutions for banking, defining secure, scalable architectures for agent-based workflows.
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Architect an internal multi-agent knowledge assistant on Azure AI and Azure cloud services, integrating heterogeneous enterprise knowledge sources with controlled information access.
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Design and develop RAG pipelines with vector embeddings, document-specific chunking strategies, PII filtering, and automated preprocessing for context-aware document analysis.
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Provide Python training and technical mentoring for client teams to build internal engineering capabilities.
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Mannheim

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Software Architect & Head of Competence Center User Interface Development | Camelot ITLab GmbH

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Owned the technical direction of the company-wide UI platform and monorepo, defining architecture standards to guide development across teams and align technical decisions with business goals.
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Designed microservice-based systems end to end, defining architectures around scalability, resilience, and performance.
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Led internal AI initiatives exploring AI agents and RAG architectures.
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Managed senior engineering staff, including developers with their own direct reports, with responsibility for leadership development, career progression, and compensation planning.
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Defined the CI/CD approach and implemented pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
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Defined the observability approach, establishing monitoring, logging, and tracing practices for system visibility, fault diagnosis, and availability monitoring.
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Mannheim

Dec 2021 – Dec 2024

Senior Developer & Head of Competence Center User Interface Development | Camelot ITLab GmbH

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Introduced and maintained a company-wide Angular UI framework and monorepo, establishing shared architecture and security standards for consistent, stable application development across teams.
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Led 13 frontend developers with technical and line-management responsibility, including performance reviews, career development, and compensation planning.
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Coordinated functional, UX, testing, and development workstreams to align requirements and delivery.
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Worked with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize technical requirements against product roadmaps and business goals.
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Mannheim

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021

Consultant | Camelot ITLab GmbH

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Developed client web applications for the logistics and chemical industries.
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Translated requirements into technical solutions in collaboration with clients, vendors, and internal teams.
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Trained and onboarded new employees and apprentices.
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Mannheim

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019

Associate Consultant | Camelot ITLab GmbH

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Supported IT project planning and analyzed functional and technical requirements.
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Developed functionality in SAP ECC and SAP APO.

Events

Hackathons & more

workshop organizer

AI Lab ● STR #07

September 24, 2026 · Böblingen, Germany

In this session of the AI Lab, we worked on AI-powered trend sales intelligence for an electronics retailer, detecting emerging trends and matching them to product categories, generating targeted advertising recommendations from product attributes, and exploring data quality checks and catalogue enrichment.

Organized by Accenture

meetup

programmier.BBQ: Pixel Perfect – KI-Bild-Upscaling

September 17, 2026 · Lotum GmbH, Bad Nauheim

Talk on AI image upscaling and how modern methods generate new plausible details instead of just stretching pixels.

Organized by programmier.bar

workshop organizer

AI Lab ● STR #06

July 23, 2026 · Stuttgart, Germany

In this session of the AI Lab, we worked on automated paycheck analysis, using local vision language models and OCR to extract and validate fields from pay slip images.

Organized by Accenture

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Contact

Let's talk

Have a question or a project in mind? Feel free to reach out.

Thomas Pöhlmann George-Washington-Straße 160 Germany, Mannheim