Tobias Looker
Chief Technology Officer at MATTR
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Looker is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Auckland with a decade of hands-on engineering and product delivery experience spanning startups, research labs, and enterprise consulting. He progressed from embedded firmware and wearable IoT prototyping during a Mechatronics Masters at the University of Auckland to leading technical standards and platform strategy at MATTR, where he now guides engineering and architecture as CTO. Tobias blends low-level hardware and firmware expertise with cloud and backend systems knowledge—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used jsonld.js library improving JSON-LD expansion and IRI handling. He has a track record of turning research prototypes into production-ready services and of working across disciplines (mechanical, electrical, mobile, web) to ship integrated products. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful problem-solver who favors practical standards-based solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at The University of Auckland
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
rdf10
linked-data10
json-ld10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
digitalbazaar/jsonld.js
May 2021 - Jun 2021
A JSON-LD Processor and API implementation in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 1 PR in 23 days
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the `jsonld.js` library, focusing on enhancing its expansion map functionality. Their work included implementing new hooks for expanding relative IRIs and unmapped properties, as well as adding support for handling cases where `@base` and `@vocab` values result in relative IRIs. These modifications involved changes to the `lib/expand.js` and `lib/context.js` files, which directly affected the JSON-LD processing logic.
json-ldapijsonldlinked-datajavascript
mattrglobal/jwm
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
JSON Web Message (JWM) RFC
Contributions:80 commits, 14 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jwmrfcmessagejsonjwt
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