Shane Bowyer
Managing Director at biTid
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Top SchoolShane Bowyer is a seasoned IoT entrepreneur and managing director with over a decade of hands-on experience designing telemetry and automation systems. As co-founder of Real Telematics and leader of biTid, he has steered the evolution from RF and GSM to modern low-power wide-area technologies like Sigfox, LoRa and NB-IoT while championing a 100% open-source IoT platform. He combines technical depth as a former R&D director and CTO with commercial acumen—offering consulting and instant in-house development through biTid. Based in Durban, South Africa, Shane blends electrical engineering training with practical systems-building to solve real-world sensor and connectivity challenges. Notably, his work emphasizes open-source tooling and pragmatic deployments that accelerate customers’ time-to-market.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Maritzburg CollegeNational Diploma, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, S4, National Diploma, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, S4 at Technikon Natal
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
capacitor6
ionic-framework6
android6
plugin6
aws-iot3
controller3
router2
remote-control2
emqx2
modbus2
iot2
charts1
mqtt1
kubernetes1
iiot1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shanebowyer/iotedgemodbusmqtt
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
IoT Edge Router/Controller communicates locally with modbus device and interfaces to the cloud via mqtt
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
emqxcontrolleraws-iotopcuacontroller-router
bitid-open-source-iot/reporting
Aug 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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