About

Florian Paul Schmidt is a freelance software developer/engineer based in Bielefeld, Germany. To keep him sane he is also an active amateur musician dabbling in different genres. Read on below for details.

Imprint / Impressum

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Software Development

I provide freelance software development services. I am available for interesting and challenging projects especially in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, big data, audio synthesis, robotics.

Technologies

Here's a short and not exhaustive list of technologies I am familiar with:

• Languages: C++, C, Java, Bash, Python, Lua, Javascript (Browser js, node.js), Assembler (6502, X86)
• Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Arch Linux
• Windows: 3.11, XP, ME, 7
• MS-Dos
• Realtime Programming
  • Robot control
  • Audio synthesis
• Embedded Systems
  • Arduino
  • Raspberry PI
• XML: XML, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath
• Machine Learning
  • Regression, Classification, Boosting, Support Vector Machines, Kernel Clustering
• Computer Vision
  • Preprocessing
  • Features (SIFT, SURF, etc.)
• Robotics
  • Task space control
  • Posture Optimization (Nullspace methods)

Previous Projects / Employments

• Software developing, research and teaching assistant at Neuroinformatics Group, University of Bielefeld
  • Lectures I gave
    • C++
    • Datamining
    • Machine Learning
  • libcbf (see Open Source Projects)
• Android app and web developer at U+I
  • API design and implementation for the server side (mostly using node.js)
  • App development on the device itself
  • Frontend and business logic for web applications
• Algorithm design, implementation and evaluation for a large scale distributed logo detection computer vision system in cooperation with Binaerwerkstatt

Open Source Software

• Jass - A simple software instrument for linux
• cbf - A framework for assembling robot control algorithms from simple components
• text.js - A very very simple paste site. Check it out here fps.io/txt
• ladspamm - A C++ header only library to find, inspect and instantiate LADSPA plugins.
• easycrypt - A firefox browser plugin to encrypt/decrypt text

Music

I'm an active hobbyist/amateur musician. Genres I dabble in include:

• Jazz
• Samba/Bossa Nova
• Funk/Pop
• Electronica
• Ambient
• Techno

Looking for classy music at your company dinner? Through my network of musician friends we can provide many different formats for different occasions.

Music Lessons / Musikunterricht

You want to learn about music theory? About guitar playing? Don't hesitate to contact me.

Sind sie auf der Suche nach Musikunterricht in den Bereichen Jazz-Gitarre/Harmonielehre? Ich stehe im Raum Bielefeld zur Verfuegung.

Listening Examples

• https://soundcloud.com/fpsio - A collection of recordings
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fCXwbr7pA - Cantaloupe Island with IFC