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About me

Hobbies and Volunteer Work

I have played since 2004 and since 2013 (until 2019/2020 respectively at Muikschule Lüdenscheid). Since 2014 I have been part of the . Moreover, I passed all 12 exams of (youth form of Wing Chun Kung Fu) from 2006 to 2013 (at ASIA Kampfkunstzentrum Lüdenscheid), was a at DPSG St. Medardus Lüdenscheid from 2008 to 2016. Furthermore, from 2008 to 2018, I was a of our Catholic Church St. Joseph and Medardus Lüdenscheid.
After three participations in from 2015 to 2016, I now support the yearly event in Cologne since 2017 as a Mentor to give back some of the wonderful expriences I made (and, last but not least, because it's always a lot of fun). This way, I also visited in Leipzig.
During the Corona crisis, I participated in the

#WirVsVirus-Hackathon of the German Federal Government

(20.-22.03.2020) as part of . Within 48 hours, 28361 participants worked on over 1500 projects of which 20 winning teams were honored. Team "Machbarschaft" was honored as one of those and has been included in a funding program of the German Federal Government. In addition, our Team won at the

#CAREhacktCORONA-Hackathon of the German social economy

in the "social issues" category. I presented our project in that hackathon as the main contacts person. Moreover, I support our project in the area of bot hotline and fundraising.

Curriculum Vitae

Here are a few key points from my resume.

• Since March 2021
  Scholarship holder of the
  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• Since summer semester 2019
  Student Assistant
  at Chair of Programming Systems, Department of Computer Science of TU Dortmund University, Germany
  Work includes: Implementing a paper about generating harder verification benchmarks for RERS Challenge (working with Büchi Automata and Spot library), implementation of a code generator for a compiler applying optimizations based on ADD optimizations and benchmark of the results (working with ADD-Lib), part of paper reviews, assisting with writing a paper on RERS Challenge, generating verification benchmarks for RERS Challenge
• 2018-2020
  Working Student
  at codecentric AG in Dortmund
  Working on projects dealing with Smart City, Internet of Things (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LoRaWAN, etc.), Amazon AWS, game development with Unity and Microsoft Kinect
• Funding years 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21
  Scholarship holder of the
  Germany Scholarship ("Deutschlandstipendium")
  , a national scholarship program providing funds for one year
• Since summer semester 2018
  Bachelor student of computer science
  at TU Dortmund University, Germany
  Subsidiary subject: German Studies
• August 2017-January 2018
  Federal Volunteer Service ("Bundesfreiwilligendienst")
  at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Lüdenscheid
  Activities: Leadership of a Computer Science-Club, support of the highly gifted (e.g. regarding participation in the "SchülerUni" project of TU Dortmund University), administration of school computers, development of a new school homepage, etc.
• 2017
  Abitur
  at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Lüdenscheid
  German Physical Society Abitur Award for best physicist of the year
• 2013-2016
  Participation in the project
  "SchülerUni" of TU Dortmund University, allowing high school students to attend regular university courses and to write regular exams.
  
  Passing 5 exams in Computer Science:
  • Computer Structures ("Rechnerstrukturen", winter semester 2013/14)
  • Electrical Engineering and Communications Engineering for Computer Scientists ("Elektrotechnik und Nachrichtentechnik für Informatiker", summer semester 2014)
  • Computer Networks and Distributed Systems ("Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme", winter semester 2014/15)
  • Functional Programming ("Funktionale Programmierung", winter semester 2015/16)
  • Logic ("Logik", summer semester 2016)
  Passing 1 exam in German Language and Literature:
  • Introduction to Literary Studies ("Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft", summer semester 2015)
• 2014/2015
  Participation in
  33. Federal Computer Science Competition ("Bundeswettbewerb Informatik")
  : 3. price in the 2. round
• 2013/2014
  Participation in
  32. Federal Computer Science Competition ("Bundeswettbewerb Informatik")
  : 3. price in the 2. round

Articles and Reports (German)

• 01.12.2020
  Informatik an der TU Dortmund studieren? David erzählt, warum. More publishments: TU Dortmund
• 04.06.2020
  "Machbarschaft" schlägt Brücke zwischen Bedürftigen und Freiwilligen David Schmidt, Informatikstudent und Deutschlandstipendiat an der TU Dort­mund, engagiert sich im Team "Machbarschaft". More publishments: PDF
• 05.10.2018
  "SchülerUni der Technischen Universität Dortmund feiert ihr 15-jähriges Bestehen". More publishments: TU Dortmund University, focus.de (no longer online).
• 26.10.2015
  "David Schmidt aus Lüdenscheid – Schüler und erfolgreicher Student der TU Dortmund", Bild zum Artikel: "Prof. Metin Tolan, Prorektor Studium der TU Dortmund, zeichnete David Schmidt für sein erfolgreiches Studium aus." Picture: Roland Baege/TU Dortmund. More publishments: Westfalenpost, Der Westen, TU Dortmund University (no longer online).
• Portrait by
  "Talentscouting" of TU Dortmund University
• Portrait by project
  "Stipendienkultur Ruhr"

Contact

I am always happy to get in contact with other enthusiastic and like-minded people. I can be reached best by an E-Mail to kontakt@davidschmidt.dev

You can find my public GPG/PGP key here. My Key-ID is 7C55C9F5E77227B8BDA91A642B1AFF31CE1DF003.