Craig Tuffnell
Director & Founder at DashIO Connect
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Tuffnell is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and director with over two decades of experience leading product design, systems engineering and innovation across hardware and software domains. As founder of DashIO Connect he now focuses on IoT dashboarding and cloud services that monitor and control devices globally, building on prior leadership roles as CTO/CEO and director in electronics and photonics companies. He combines hands-on engineering and PhD-level research chops with pragmatic product management, financial acumen and marketing insight to take complex technical concepts to market. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, Craig’s background spans R&D, senior design and executive leadership, and he’s known for translating systems thinking into commercially viable products. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving between deep technical roles and strategic business development, bridging lab research and scalable product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Waimea CollegePhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (16)
asynchronous10
socket10
networking10
arduino-library10
async10
arduino9
macos9
ios9
esp328
upstream8
platformio7
kotlin7
android6
esp82666
esp-idf5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dashio-connect/arduino-dashio
Nov 2020 - Feb 2023
DashIO library for connecting the DashIO Dashboard app to Arduino devices.
Contributions:133 commits, 203 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
dashio-connect/arduino-dashioESP
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
DashIO library for connecting the DashIO Dashboard app to Arduino devices.
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 17 tags in 5 months
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