Thomas Oldbury
Lead AR Electronics Engineer at Thermoteknix
Rushden, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Oldbury is a Lead AR Electronics Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing FPGA, hardware, and embedded software systems for high-performance video and augmented reality applications in defence. He has progressed through roles from intern to lead at specialist engineering firms, bringing practical expertise in real-time signal processing, FPGA implementation, and system-level hardware-software integration. Based in Rushden, England, Tom combines deep technical craftsmanship with product-focused delivery, routinely taking concepts from prototype to deployed systems. His work balances low-level hardware optimization with embedded software tooling, and he continues to tinker publicly—maintaining a Github presence that reflects day-and-night engineering curiosity. Colleagues rely on him for both technical leadership and pragmatic problem-solving when tight real-time constraints and safety-critical requirements collide.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering (Industrial) Masters, Electronic Engineering (Industrial) Masters at University of Leeds
English
Github Skills (19)
lattice9
mvp9
microchip9
fpga8
asic8
firmware7
gentoo7
raspberry6
oscilloscope6
microcontroller6
renderer5
packaging5
raspberry-pi4
gpu3
arm3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tom66/armwave
May 2020 - Jul 2020
ARM-based multisampling and multiwave oscilloscope renderer
Contributions:6 PRs, 967 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
rendereroscilloscopearm
tom66/mmal-hacks
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:161 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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