Wolfgang Tom
Co-Founder & CTO at Popometer.io
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolWolfgang Tom is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at Popometer.io while leading engineering at 9flats.com. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and backend systems, turning product ideas into robust web solutions and pragmatic architectures. His background spans technical leadership and senior engineering roles across startups and agencies, where he combined delivery ownership with team mentoring. An active contributor to open-source home automation tooling, he improved thermostat control and calibration logic for a Home Assistant component, showing attention to real-world integration and sensor-driven automation. Based in Hamburg, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a practical engineering mindset focused on reliability and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physikalisch-Technische Lehranstalt Wedel
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
clim10
home-assistant10
python10
home-automation10
zigbee9
tuya8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KartoffelToby/better_thermostat
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
This custom component for Home Assistant will add crucial features to your climate-controlling TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) to save you the work of creating automations to make it smart. It combines a room-temperature sensor, window/door sensors, weather forecasts, or an ambient temperature probe to decide when it should call for heat and automatically calibrate your TRVs to fix the imprecise measurements taken in the radiator's vicinity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 17 reviews, 70 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wolfgang primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Home Assistant custom component, focusing on the better_thermostat functionality. The user's commits involved modifying and refactoring core files related to thermostat control, temperature handling, and window management. The changes included bug fixes, feature enhancements, and integration improvements to the thermostat's behavior and calibration. The user's work directly impacted the performance, and features of the better_thermostat custom component.
climateprobesensorsheathome-automation
wtom/versacommerce_api
Jun 2019 - Nov 2023
The VersaCommerce API gem is a lightweight gem for accessing the VersaCommerce admin REST web services.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 6 months
apiadminecommerceweb-servicesgem
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