Strategic Thinking
Working on enterprise architecture, IT/OT advisory, and digital transformation for manufacturing and energy.
Digital products / engineering / writing
Turning ideas into real impact.
Clear digital work, personal notes, and a compact presence without agency buzzwords.
This site is designed as a calm one-page space: a personal introduction, an English blog, and a direct way to get in touch.
About Me
Curious mind. Clear direction.
I work on digital transformation for manufacturing and energy companies, with a focus on enterprise architecture, IT/OT advisory, and practical implementation. I am interested in making complex systems clearer, more connected, and easier to turn into real progress. This site is meant to stay focused rather than loud: minimal navigation, clear lines, and straightforward content.
Clean Execution
Business design thinking, applied AI, and an agile way of working.
Human Focused
Open-minded, curious, and always looking for fresh perspectives.
Latest Thoughts
Notes from the journey.
Short notes, project updates, technical reflections, and occasional personal thoughts and interests, all in English.
Latest writing
Open archiveUnderrated Rock Albums: Therapy? – Infernal Love
I first heard Infernal Love by Therapy? during the summer months of 1995. As a teenager, it was immediately one of those albums where you know after a short time: I need to buy this. Visually, it has…
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Azure IoT Hub REST API testing with Postman
Not many know and use it: Azure IoT Hub supports a REST API which can be used for sending and receiving messages. The example describes how it can be tested with postman. How does it work? Setup Azure…
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Website Relaunch schwarzgupfberglauf.at
After 12 years of the first website launch the Schwarzgupf Berglauf relaunched its website using my technical and usability experience.
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First learnings from Home Assistant home automation
My first experiences in playing around with home automation are resulting in a running framework (basic network for extendibiltiy and integration). I am working with raspberry Pi and Home Assistant as central environment. The operating system is debian…
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New Images in my Flickr Photo Stream
I have added some new, old images on my flickr photostream. The images have been made in last summer/autumn showing some impresssions from Opatja (Croatia), some more in December in Hongkong and some nature views. Mainly shot with…
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Banana Plugs with Yamaha Receiver
After reading through the manuals of the Yamaha N470d receiver I recognized that the usage of banana plugs are documented for the speakers but they are not for the receiver unit of the stereo device: The speaker input…
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Get In Touch
Let us build something useful.
If you have an idea, a project, or a question, you can contact me directly.
- office@thomastropper.com
- Baden, Austria
- thomastropper.com