Tom Clement
Founder CEO at Stichting IFCAT Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Clement is a founder and CEO with 12 years of engineering and product experience, currently building New Dawn to grow premium wood from cultured plant cells as a scalable alternative to deforestation. He blends deep embedded-software craftsmanship (ESP32, FreeRTOS, C) and open-hardware entrepreneurship from Curious Supplies with bioinformatics training (MSc) to bridge software, hardware, and biotech. Tom has a track record of leading teams and communities—founding the Plant Cell Institute, organizing large hacker conferences, and shipping firmware and products at Ultimaker and CHARGED. An active open-source contributor, he improved automation for tuya-cloudcutter to enable fully local IoT device operation and custom firmware flashing. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative builder who deliberately brings software-style open collaboration into biotech to lower barriers and accelerate impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics & Systems Biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)VWO Natuur&Techniek, VWO Natuur&Techniek at St. Ignatius Gymnasium AmsterdamBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French, Latin
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Github Skills (21)
python10
scripting10
flashing10
firmware10
bash10
flash10
iot10
automation10
script10
sys10
sh10
embedded10
automations10
shell10
network-configuration9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A tool that disconnects Tuya IoT devices from the cloud, allowing them to run completely locally.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tom significantly contributed to the `tuya-cloudcutter` project, focusing on automating the process of detaching Tuya IoT devices from the cloud. They implemented a crucial automation step enabling devices to connect to the `cloudcutter-flash` access point without requiring the Tuya app. Further contributions included enhancements to the `run_detach.sh` script and the introduction of support for flashing custom firmware, streamlining the device detachment and firmware modification processes. They also added a `configure_wifi` function in `src/cloudcutter/__main__.py`, making the tool more flexible.
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badgeteam/ota
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
This repository contains all released firmware versions for the badges we support
Contributions:40 commits, 39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
badgelifefirmwarefirmware-updater
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