Chris Midgley
CEO & Founder at A New Startup
Northborough, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Midgley is a veteran founder and technology executive with 25+ years building and scaling software businesses from startup to exit, currently leading a new venture out of Northborough, MA. He pairs market-driven product strategy with deep technical expertise in virtualization, storage, SaaS and secure 24x7 architectures, and is a principal inventor on more than ten patents. As founder/CTO of Unidesk and earlier startups, he has repeatedly translated research and customer insight into commercially successful platforms and elegant user experiences. He remains hands-on—contributing to open-source IoT tooling such as improvements to Moddable's debugger—bringing practical embedded systems chops to his product vision. Known for collaborative leadership and unconventional problem discovery (including testing ideas while sailing the Caribbean), he blends creative exploration with disciplined execution to de‑risk and accelerate prototypes into proof‑of‑concepts.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
iot10
embedded10
debug10
javascript10
sys10
user-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Moddable-OpenSource/moddable
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Tools for developers to create truly open IoT products using standard JavaScript on low cost microcontrollers.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `xsbug` tools within the Moddable SDK, enhancing its debugging capabilities. The commits focus on improving the user interface of the debugger, including colorizing code, adding file extension support, and modifying console output, improving the user experience of debugging Moddable applications. Additionally, the user implemented features related to showing and hiding exceptions in the console output.
javascriptjavascript-standardfor-developerslow-costmicrocontrollers
nuCarve/laserpost
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Fusion 360 / HSMWorks / Inventor CAM post-processor for laser cutting and engraving that creates perfect vector projects (LightBurn and SVG), eliminating the headaches of projecting sketches, exporting DXF files, etc. Visit https://nucarve.com/laserpost for release downloads, and tutorials, tips and tricks.
Contributions:3 releases, 193 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
headachesvisitcamfusionperfect
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