Toby Jaffey
Principal Consultant at Ringtail Software Ltd
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Jaffey is a Principal Consultant and freelance IoT specialist with over nine years of professional experience building embedded and cloud software for connected devices. He co-founded DevicePilot and served as CTO, shaping technical strategy, product development and a time-series DB service while helping define HyperCat, a lightweight catalogue spec progressing toward BSI standard. Toby’s hands-on background spans embedded Linux, RTOS on ARM, low-power networking (6LoWPAN/NAT64), ZigBee and device gateways, plus CI-driven quality improvements for firmware and systems. He runs Ringtail Software offering consultancy and contract services, bridging deep low-level engineering with practical cloud-managed device solutions. Notably, his career combines product-led startup leadership with long-term engineering roles that shipped commercial embedded products across consumer and industrial markets.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, 2:1, BSc Hons, Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (6)
terminal-emulator10
zig10
terminal-application10
emulation10
testing10
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ringtailsoftware/zig-wasm-audio-framebuffer
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 8 days
ringtailsoftware/zigimg
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Zig library for reading and writing different image formats
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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