Thomas Eichinger
Director Of Engineering at Nevados
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarThomas Eichinger is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of embedded systems and firmware expertise, now serving as Director of Engineering in Oakland. He has led and scaled firmware teams across startups and product companies—most recently at Nevados, ZOLA Electric, CreateMe, and Molekule—bringing hardware-constrained devices from prototype to production. A hands-on engineer by background, Thomas co-founded the RIOT e.V. community and contributed platform-specific fixes to the widely used RIOT OS for IoT, demonstrating deep low-level debugging and cross-platform portability skills. His career blends technical ownership (firmware, networking, system testing) with people leadership, shipping robust connected products in energy and consumer hardware domains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who excels at untangling platform-specific issues and turning early proofs-of-concept into maintainable production systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
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iot10
embedded10
macos10
c-programming10
c1110
microcontroller10
sys10
osdev10
makefile9
rtos9
msp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RIOT-OS/RIOT
Apr 2013 - Aug 2017
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:373 commits, 143 PRs, 76 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on fixing platform-specific issues and adapting the RIOT OS to work correctly on various platforms, particularly macOS/OS X. Their contributions include addressing compiler warnings and errors related to OS X, adding necessary include statements, and modifying code to accommodate platform-specific behaviors. They also worked on fixing formatting warnings, and fixing a type definition for OS X. The user demonstrates expertise in debugging and adapting low-level system code.
riot-osinternetofthingsrtosriotmicrocontrollers
thomaseichinger/RIOT
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
RIOT OS - The revolutionary IoT OS
Contributions:2 PRs, 177 pushes, 268 branches in 2 years 7 months
iotriotriot-os
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