Rick Bullotta
Advisor Investor Mentor at Various
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolRick Bullotta is an experienced technology leader, investor, and mentor with 13+ years focused on IoT, manufacturing software, and product-driven engineering. He co-founded and served as CTO of ThingWorx after scaling Lighthammer from startup to acquisition by SAP, and later shaped Azure IoT strategy at Microsoft. Rick advises and invests in early-stage companies across IoT and industrial software (HighByte, Tulip, TwinThread, Losant, Edge Impulse, Medcrypt, Leela.ai, InfluxData) while mentoring startups in Techstars and other programs. He blends hands-on technical depth across software, hardware, and manufacturing with practical shop-floor skills—electrician, carpenter and mechanic—on a 155-year-old home. A lifelong tinkerer and occasional racer, he combines entrepreneurial rigor with a down-to-earth maker’s perspective when helping teams turn industrial ideas into scalable products. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he’s equally likely to talk architecture and innovation as he is about pizza and beer.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Graduated. Barely., BS, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Graduated. Barely. at Cornell University
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Github Skills (122)
windows10
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javascript10
linux10
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rocket10
nodejs-library10
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nodejs10
portable9
sidecar9
browser9
mqtt9
client-library9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RickBullotta/piface-node-12
Oct 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
RickBullotta/azure-iot-hue
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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