Thomas Göttgens
Vice President at GroupAlarm
Herzogenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Göttgens is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, IoT, and software engineering, currently serving as Vice President at Meshtastic and CEO of wir schaffen UG. He combines executive leadership with deep technical craftsmanship—his open-source contributions to Meshtastic and RadioLib include firmware enhancements for LoRa radios (SX1262, SX1280, LR1121), SPI/thread-safety improvements, and UX-focused website and CLI work. His background as a longtime CTO and founder demonstrates an ability to move between strategic product direction, alarm/notification systems, and low-level radio firmware development. Based in Herzogenrath, Germany, he pairs academic grounding from RWTH Aachen with practical experience shipping cross-stack solutions and improving developer tooling. Notably, he contributes both to device firmware and to the user-facing tooling that makes off-grid mesh networks easier to use, showing a rare blend of RF, firmware, backend, and frontend skills.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Github Skills (31)
mesh10
c-language10
python10
apidoc10
protocol-buffers10
fm-radio10
typescript10
spi10
system10
api10
sys10
typescript-types10
embedded10
engine10
typescripts10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
meshtastic/firmware
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository contains the official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:613 reviews, 1063 commits, 964 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the firmware for the Meshtastic project, focusing on enhancing the LoRa communication capabilities. The commits include significant changes to radio interfaces, radio configuration settings for the SX1262 and SX1280 radios, and support for the new LR1121 radio. Further, they are adding the capability to display time and date from the device clock.
rp2040nrf52meshfirmwareoff-grid
meshtastic/meshtastic
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Meshtastic project website and documentation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 112 commits, 136 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the project's website and documentation. They implemented new UI elements related to downloads, including the Meshtastic Flasher, web flasher and app download sections. Additionally, they contributed to the credits page and updated the documentation's navigation and design elements. These commits suggest a focus on improving the user experience and information architecture of the Meshtastic project's website.
project-websitemeshtastic
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