Founder · LLM Wiki inventor · Infrastructure maintainer
Tom Roth
Born 1962 in Bonn, 40 years in Berlin, 32 years in IT. Relocated to Heidelberg in 2024. Founder of OpenHeidelberg and inventor of the LLM Wiki — a collaborative architecture for using linked Markdown documents as external AI memory.
Interests & expertise
- Process optimisation
- Free and open-source software (FOSS)
- Self-hosted language models
- Photography
Projects
- Council Insights — AI-powered city-council document search
- General RAG — reference retrieval-augmented generation pipeline
- OpenHeidelberg — the initiative itself
- LLM Wiki — the collaborative knowledge architecture
Also member of: Kirchheim bewegt e.V.