Thomas Sommer
Start-up Owner at Rollgut®
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Sommer is a self-taught start-up owner and pragmatic engineer with 10 years of experience building embedded systems, web applications, and physical prototypes from his workshop in Essen, Germany. He combines deep open-source involvement—contributing to the modm C++23 hardware library with sensor drivers and cross-platform examples—with hands-on mechanical and electronics skills (KiCAD, FreeCAD, 3D printing) to rapidly validate concepts. Equally comfortable in Drupal/PHP front ends and low-level MCU drivers, he favors generic, model-driven solutions that scale across domains. His practical shop work and design tool fluency (Blender, Inkscape, Krita) give him an unusual ability to bridge digital engineering and physical product realization.
10 years of coding experience
Self Taught
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
embedded10
c-language10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
microcontroller10
sys10
stm9
cortex-m9
avr9
type-traits6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
modm-io/modm
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
modm: a C++23 library generator for AVR and ARM Cortex-M devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:170 reviews, 30 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the driver and example code of color sensors, specifically the TCS3472. The contributions include refactoring color sensor drivers, adding example implementations on Arduino and STM32 boards. Additionally, they added a BitBangEncoderInput driver. Further contributions include fixing display and example inconsistencies.
cortexjlinkgeneratorcortex-mdata-driven
TomSaw/modm
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
modm: a C++17 library generator for AVR and ARM Cortex-M devices
Contributions:705 pushes, 107 branches in 4 years
cortexcppavrarm-cortexarm
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