Rich Ellis
Programme Manager - Electronics And Connected Products at Kohler Mira Ltd.
Stonehouse, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Ellis is a hands-on electronics and connected-products programme manager with over two decades of practical engineering experience and 11 years in formal leadership roles, currently overseeing hardware, firmware and app delivery for Kohler Mira’s connected product portfolio. He progressed from apprentice PCB designer to Chartered Engineer and senior management, combining deep RF, embedded firmware and PCB design expertise with product ownership for mobile apps and cloud-connected services. Rich has grown and mentored multi-disciplinary teams across the UK and India, led lab refurbishments and driven supply-chain and compliance strategies through component shortages. He is pragmatic about cost, quality and risk, comfortable switching between bench-level troubleshooting and strategic programme planning, and he brings a rare blend of field-service insight and app-specification experience to connected consumer products.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2:2, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2:2 at University of BathHNC, Electronics, Distinction, HNC, Electronics, Distinction at Wiltshire College ChippenhamA Levels, Maths, Computing, Electronics, C, A, A, A Levels, Maths, Computing, Electronics, C, A, A at Cirencester College
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Github Skills (95)
python10
graalvm10
ibm-cloud10
http10
oas10
http-client10
network-server10
openapi10
couchdb10
javascript10
big-data10
sdk10
rest10
cloudant10
android-application10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/cloudant-kafka-connector
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
A Kafka connector for Cloudant
Contributions:2 releases, 151 reviews, 95 commits in 5 years 5 months
cloudantkafka-connector
cloudant-labs/java-cloudant-cache
Nov 2015 - Jul 2021
A client side caching layer for java-cloudant
Contributions:5 releases, 78 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 9 months
client-side-cachingcloudantjava
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