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Dirk Schulenburg/ laborbuch

About Me

I'm a trained industrial electronics technician. I started in 1990 at Siemens in Berlin, in the first all-German apprenticeship year. Anyone who was in Berlin between 1990 and 1993 knows what was going on there. After that I calibrated measuring equipment in a high-voltage switchgear plant, studied mathematics, worked on the technology behind the news and spent twelve years as an IT consultant. I've worked in education since 2016 and have been self-employed since May 2026. I'm a maker: I build things until they work.

I came to the school to digitalise education. Then I realised that administration grows faster than any digitalisation. And AI overtakes the old approach anyway. So I build it myself.

What I Do

Connecting AI to existing software
Running servers and automation
Building learning modules and tools
Writing: blog, tutorials, workshops

Tech Stack

Docker
Node.js
React
Next.js
Python
Moodle
WordPress
Traefik
Claude / AI

Infrastructure

The services on my servers, drawn as a network. Click a node for details.

Milestones

What's behind the offers.

  1. 1990Industrial electronics apprenticeship at Siemens Berlin. The first intake after reunification.
  2. 1993-1996Siemens high-voltage switchgear plant, measurement lab: calibrating the measuring equipment.
  3. 1996-2003Mathematics, Diplom (FH). Shaped everything that followed.
  4. 1999-2004Self-employed communications technician alongside my studies, mainly in news production.
  5. 2004-2016IT consultant.
  6. 2016-2021Tertia: timetabling, statistical analysis, coaching.
  7. 2022Teacher and IT administrator at BS:WI Hamburg.
  8. 05/2026Self-employed: AI integration for businesses, public offices and teams.

Vision

I don't believe in digitalisation from the top down. I believe in people who build their own tools. With AI, that works for everyone for the first time, not just for programmers.