Tom Sayles
Vice President at Cascade Vaulters
Fall City, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTom Sayles is a versatile technology leader and VP with two decades of multidisciplinary experience spanning product R&D, medical device manufacturing, civil and traffic engineering, and software/systems development. Currently a Senior Technology Development Architect at PowerLight Technologies, he has driven early-stage innovation from lab prototypes to production, notably in power-over-fiber and free-space power beaming. Known for seeing the big picture, Tom combines process documentation, lean/Six Sigma methods, and automation to improve information flow and measurement systems across organizations. He pairs hands-on hardware and firmware development for field sensors with practical software skills (PHP, HTML/CSS, scripting) and a history of building test systems and manufacturing-ready solutions. Beyond industry roles, Tom applies his technical leadership to community initiatives—coaching nationally competitive equestrian vaulting teams and leading volunteer sensor deployments—underscoring a rare blend of engineering rigor and grassroots impact.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechHigh School, High School at El Camino Real
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
temperature-sensor8
typescript8
electron8
sensor8
microsoft7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
plugin7
editor7
enclosure6
dictionary6
android6
visual-studio6
gps6
sparkfun6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
snovalleypa/SVPA-FloodSensor-2016
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 54 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
alliancefloodsensorsprototypedeployed
tsayles/OctoPrint-Enclosure
Jun 2020 - Sep 2023
OctoPrint Enclosure Plugin
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
haikumsrsurfacecrosswordenclosure
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