Eli Thomas
Vice President Of Engineering at Inugo
Martinborough, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolEli Thomas is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native backends, IoT platforms, and user-centric mobile and web experiences. Currently VP of Engineering at Inugo, he blends strategic leadership with deep technical chops in AWS, Kubernetes, and device-to-cloud systems, having scaled platforms to handle hundreds of thousands of devices and tens of billions of events. He has led and mentored engineering teams through hiring, performance management, and process improvements, while remaining an active individual contributor on architecture and delivery. Eli’s background spans startups and enterprise roles—from IoT at Particle to digital strategy at LIC—and is anchored by a Computer Science degree and Azure architecture training. Outside work he has a practical, service-oriented streak evidenced by prior service as an Army lieutenant and volunteer firefighter, which informs his calm, disciplined approach to high-pressure delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Waikato Institute of TechnologyArchitecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions at MicrosoftBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Waikato
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Github Skills (46)
wrapping10
particle9
photon9
argon9
mbedtls9
arduino7
cordova-plugin6
bluetooth-low-energy6
phonegap-plugin6
iot6
cordova-ios6
iphone6
dtls6
firmware6
cordova-android6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Method-Recycling/node-coap-client
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Clientside implementation of the CoAP protocol with DTLS support
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
particle-iot/node-mbed-dtls
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
node DTLS server wrapping mbedtls
Contributions:12 PRs, 41 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 1 month
mbedtlsdtlswrapping
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