Form isn't decoration — it's the blueprint. I begin with what could be: the elegant interface, the seamless flow, the moment of delight. Then I engineer backwards, creating the infrastructure to make that vision real. Function serves form, not the other way around. Never stop dreaming.

• 🌳 Fintree – Interactive pension & wealth simulator for Swiss 3-pillar pension optimisation (MoneyToday coverage)
• 🏔️ TaxJungle – Interactive Swiss tax comparison across every municipality (Handelszeitung coverage)
• 🏠 Hyppo – Switzerland's first personalised mortgage calculator for English-speaking expats (FintechNews coverage)

More on that in my portfolio 🌐 shumil.in

Every month I go to a different Swiss canton for a casual walk-and-talk about software development and product management. Bring a challenge you're working on — we'll break it down, swap ideas, and turn it into clear next steps you can act on. Open to founders, PMs, devs, and anyone curious about how good products get made.

• 📍 Next up: in.spire Solothurn

• 🗺️ Mission Planner – 3D mission planning & flight simulation for INAV
• ⏪ RSS Time Machine – Fetch and process archived RSS feeds from the Wayback Machine. I used this tool to teach my chat model to talk like my favourite product evangelist (sorry Steve Blank!)

When the Epstein case documents were released, they came as thousands of scanned pages — unstructured, noisy, and nearly impossible to search. We built the tools to change that.

We processed the entire document release into a searchable, structured dataset and created an open-source system that lets anyone — journalists, investigators, researchers — ask questions and get cited, page-level answers from the source materials.

• 🔍 Epstein Chat – Ask questions, get answers with verifiable citations from the original documents
• 📦 Early Release Dataset – Initial curated release for early community access
• 📄 Complete OCR Dataset – 1.38 million pages, fully processed

We welcome journalists from all over the world to dig into it.

• 🇨🇭 Awesome Swiss OGD Community – Curated list of tools and projects for Swiss Open Government Data
• 🤖 deepseek-r1-coder-tools – Modified DeepSeek-R1 with tool support for coding agents like Cline (557K+ pulls on Ollama)
• 🛡️ Amnezia ARM64 – ARM64 (aarch64) support for Amnezia VPN, optimised for AWS Graviton to make it work on free tier

A suite of MCP servers for accessing Swiss government data programmatically:

• 🏢 schwaizer-zefix-mcp – Swiss Commercial Register (Zefix) & UID Webservice APIs
• 🗺️ schwaizer-geo-mcp – Swiss building registry, geospatial analytics & company-location enrichment via geo.admin.ch
• 📊 schwaizer-opendata-mcp – Swiss Open Government Data via CKAN API (opendata.swiss)
• 📈 schwaizer-bfs-mcp – Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) data access
• 🔗 schwaizer-I14Y-mcp – Swiss I14Y Interoperability Platform

• ✈️ Zum Wilden Mann – When I have time, I write about building, tuning, and other aspects of FPV tech
• 🔧 Thingiverse – My 3D printing designs

• 🏗️ StoreFactory – StoreFactory: Digital Lab for Textile Heat-Setting Simulation (M.Sc. thesis, 2016)
• 🔬 AFM Cantilever Elasticity – Refined Beam Model for AFM Cantilevers (M.Sc. thesis, 2012)