Tobias Kaupat
Founder & Prokurist at Lobaro GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Kaupat is a founder and hands-on engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building Industrial IoT products end-to-end—from PCB and firmware to cloud backends and device management. As Founder & Prokurist of Lobaro GmbH he leads distributed teams and has scaled engineering operations internationally, including growing a Vietnam office to 18 developers. He combines deep practical knowledge in Java, JavaScript, C# and embedded systems with cloud-native REST architectures and agile product delivery. Tobias contributes to open-source tooling for device connectivity (notably improving cross-platform serial support in go-serial) and has helped harden backend stacks like The Things Network. His background includes reverse-engineering medical comms protocols and enterprise Java work, giving him a rare mix of low-level protocol expertise and large-scale system design. Based in Hamburg, he focuses on making industrial devices reliable, manageable, and cloud-ready for real-world deployments.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Engineer, Computer Science and Engineering, Diploma, Diplom Engineer, Computer Science and Engineering, Diploma at Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
German, English
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Github Skills (27)
validations10
api-design10
wp-api10
lorawan10
winapi10
validation10
go10
golang10
serial-communication10
ws-api10
multiplatform9
javascript9
cross-platform9
open-source9
file-upload9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bugst/go-serial
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
A cross-platform serial library for go-lang.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on enhancing the `go-serial` library, addressing issues related to serial port communication on Windows. Their work included modifying DTR/RTS handling, implementing methods to read DTR/RTS status, and improving the robustness of the `Close()` function. They also implemented features allowing users to set the initial RTS and DTR states when opening a serial port, improving cross-platform compatibility of the library.
golangserialserializationlanggo-lang
TheThingsArchive/ttn
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
The Things Network Stack V2
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the code's robustness and reliability within the The Things Network Stack V2 project. Their contributions involved fixing typos, enhancing validation logic to provide more informative error messages, and addressing review feedback to ensure code consistency and correctness. The user's work included modifications across multiple files and components, including the core API validation, indicating a focus on backend software quality and API design.
golangthe-things-networklorawan-serverlora-serverlora
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