JoshuaGimmel
Server management & infrastructure
I'm 18, an apprentice platform developer in Zürich. I came into IT with a bit of interest, and it grew into an obsession — the depth of the thing is what keeps me here. This is what I've built so far.
01 — About
I didn't plan on this,and now I can't stop.
I started my apprenticeship as a platform developer with a little interest in it. The more I learned, the more that interest turned into an obsession — the complexity and the depth of IT give me a hunger to keep going that doesn't really switch off.
I also love AI. It's such an interesting technology, and I'm genuinely thankful to be born into the generation where it started. Most of what I build ends up touching it somewhere.
The plan is a Bachelor's in Computer Science, maybe a Master's after that, and to understand every aspect of IT down to the detail — and eventually contribute something back. I'd like to carve my name into the history of technology.
Ich bin in Zürich in der Lehre als Platformentwickler. Angefangen habe ich mit ein wenig Interesse — daraus wurde eine Obsession.
Languages
GermanNative
Swiss GermanNative
EnglishNative
02 — Projects
Things I'vebuilt.
Everything here lives on GitHub. Some of it is coursework, some of it is what I made because I wanted it to exist.
Published
Personal
LuraStudy
github ↗
My own idea, and the biggest thing I've built. Feed it your school material, get study material back. By a student, for students.
LuraStudy website
github ↗
The official LuraStudy website.
School & apprenticeship
m169 — local AI
github ↗
Running a language model locally on my own machine. A CPU-only variant lives in m169-local-ai-cpu.
Kompetenznachweis M158
github ↗
My Python competence proof for Module 158 — apprenticeship work, kept in the open.
Everything else
github.com/JoshuaJeffreyGimmel ↗
The full profile, including whatever I pushed most recently.
03 — Roadmap
Where I've been,where I'm going.
Solid markers are behind me, hollow ones are what I'm walking toward. Eighteen years in, four of them decided.
May 2008
Born in Zürich
Swiss and American by blood — both passports, both languages. The middle years happened on the other side.
2010
Moved to the United States
Early childhood spent there. English is still the language at home, so it never became a school subject for me.
2015
Moved back to Switzerland
School here, and the years where computers stopped being something I only used.
Aug 2024
Started the apprenticeship
Platform developer at a small IT company in Zürich. Small shop, which means I touch everything instead of one narrow piece.
Aug 2026
You are hereThird year of the apprenticeship
Eighteen, two years of it behind me. Modules 158 and 169 done, LuraStudy in progress, language models running on my own hardware.
Summer 2028
Finish the apprenticeship — EFZ
Four years, closed out with the federal diploma as a platform developer and LuraStudy in a state I am happy to hand to anyone.
2029
Finish BM2, then the FH
Berufsmaturität after the apprenticeship, and straight into a university of applied sciences for the bachelor.
2032
Bachelor done, then the real job
A degree in hand and a serious engineering role. Dual citizenship means Switzerland and the United States are both open to me — I go wherever the harder problem is.
Horizon 2032 · updated August 2026
04 — Stack
What I use,what I'm learning.
No rack, no budget — I use whatever I can get my hands on. Right now that's one old gaming PC doing everything.
The machine
CPUi7 (10th gen)
RAM16 GB DDR4
Storage1 TB SSD
GPURTX 2060
Enough to run a local model, which is all I needed it for.
What I write
- Python
- C#
- JavaScript
- HTML & CSS
Next up
- Linux administration
- Containers & networking
Modules & certificates
Modul 158
Competence proof · Python
Modul 169
Local AI · GPU and CPU variants
More as I finish them — the EFZ as a platform developer is the one at the end.
05 — Contact
Say hello,or ask me something.
If you're working on something interesting, or you want to know how one of these projects works, write to me.