Thomas Schwotzer
Professor at HTW Berlin
Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Schwotzer is a Berlin-based IT professor and researcher with a PhD and over two decades of experience spanning academia, R&D leadership, and startup executive roles. He leads teaching and research in mobile decentralized semantic systems, spatial information, and programming at HTW Berlin while co-heading the Sustainable Smart City research cluster and directing an international Master’s in Professional IT and Digitalization. Thomas is an active open-source practitioner—maintaining the mobile P2P framework Shared Knowledge (Shark) and contributing to the Open Historical Data Map—bringing research prototypes to production-ready code. His background combines deep academic rigor with hands-on product and project leadership, and he moonlights as a hobby historian, informing his work on historical spatial data systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Technische Universität ChemnitzPhD, PhD at Technische Universität BerlinUC BerkeleySpezialschule Mathematik / Physik Carl-Friedrich Gauß Frankfurt (Oder)
Github Skills (25)
android-service10
shark10
semantic9
p2p8
java7
android6
payment2
internet2
django1
python1
viewer1
docker1
historical1
financial1
rdf4j1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SharedKnowledge/SharkNet2Android
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
We are building a purely decentralized mobile messenger with the open developer framework ASAP for decentralized apps.
Contributions:1 release, 150 commits, 109 pushes in 2 years 11 months
SharedKnowledge/SharkFW
Jan 2014 - Mar 2022
Shark - Semantic P2P Framework
Contributions:1 release, 238 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 3 months
p2psemanticshark
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