Summary
Thomas Clayton is an engineering manager with eight years of startup-focused experience and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, combining deep technical hands-on skills in Verilog, FPGA, and embedded systems with leadership of multidisciplinary teams. He has progressed from digital design and research roles into product and engineering leadership, delivering patentable IP for high-performance ADC/DAC testing and packaging complex algorithms into production hardware and firmware. Comfortable wearing many hats, he has owned strategic responsibilities—IP management, IT systems, budgeting and Agile process rollout—alongside mentoring engineers across domains. Now leading engineering at Ocean Information Services after heading product development at Cytomos, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic product delivery that consistently turns research-grade ideas into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Electronic engineering, Phd, Electronic engineering at The University of Edinburgh