Samuel Niedermeier

samuel@snieds:~$ cat mission.txt

I plan like a PM and ship like an engineer. 12+ years across IT, automotive and AI — from enterprise monitoring at BMW to AI platforms I design, build and operate end-to-end. Currently deep in local-first AI and the KDE Plasma ecosystem — the repos below are live.

samuel@snieds:~$ ls ~/projects --featured

• niuton/ LIVE SELF-HOSTED niuton.net ↗

  AI cloud desktop OS — 22+ apps, integrated AI assistant (Aurora), team chat with shared filesystems, visual app builder.

• dev-board/ SELF-HOSTED

  Self-built JIRA-style Kanban where user stories are implemented by Claude Code — diff review, approval, one-click deploy to the homelab.

• homelab/ SELF-HOSTED

  Proxmox platform — 14 containers behind one reverse proxy: Nextcloud, VDI, DNS, monitoring, self-hosted LLMs. Fully automated operations.

• ai-tool-suite/ LIVE SELF-HOSTED apps.snieds.com ↗

  Self-hosted AI workbench — retro Program Manager UI wrapping Claude and local models.

samuel@snieds:~$ gh repo list sunsetterphoto

• niuton-aurora QML Jul 2026 Local-first AI assistant for KDE Plasma 6 — panel widget & app (Ollama, ComfyUI, voice)
• fedora-lowlevel-settings C++ Jun 2026 12 KCM modules for low-level Fedora admin — systemd, SELinux, bootloader, DNF
• HealthPanel QML Jun 2026 Compact system health widget — CPU, RAM, disk, network, temps, SSD SMART, battery
• MobileServerSwitch Shell Jul 2026 Plasma widget to monitor & control a laptop moonlighting as a server
• Workspaceflow Shell Jun 2026 macOS-like dynamic workspaces for Plasma 6 — pure KWin scripting, zero deps
• plasmacat Python Jul 2026 Pixel-art desktop cat — lives on your windows, hunts your cursor

# 6 public repos · github.com/sunsetterphoto ↗ · freshness live from the GitHub API

samuel@snieds:~$ history | grep milestones

• 241212+ years across IT, automotive & AI — consultant & project lead
• 2413enterprise monitoring dashboards @ BMW Group
• 2414SAFe 6 Scrum Master — certified
• 24152016–2020 founded & ran Sunsetter Creative ↗ — photography · web · teaching @ VHS Deggendorf
• 24162026: six open-source KDE Plasma projects — all in active development

samuel@snieds:~$ contact --now

• → emailniedermeier.sn@pm.me
• → githubgithub.com/sunsetterphoto ↗
• → linkedinlinkedin.com/in/samuel-n ↗
• → statusopen to opportunities — happy to talk