Summary
Christopher Thomas is a Senior Software Embedded Engineer based in Berlin with 17 years of experience building full-stack systems, embedded devices, and developer tooling across startups and scale-ups. He has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, designed local development and Docker/ECS pipelines, and currently develops medical-device gateway hardware and cloud infrastructure using Go, JavaScript/React, Java, Kubernetes and IaC. Equally comfortable in firmware-level embedded stacks and high-level web services, he combines hands-on coding with project leadership and a history of creating internal frameworks and open development environments to boost team productivity. Christopher's career highlights include architecting API platforms, breaking up legacy systems into services, and shipping a Raspberry Pi–based device stack for clinical data transport—showing a knack for bridging hardware constraints with scalable cloud systems. He brings a practical, inclusive leadership style rooted in curiosity about science, technology, and social impact.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HNC - Computer Science Computer Science, HNC - Computer Science Computer Science at Stafford University
English, Spanish