Thomas could be called a "Fullstack Developer" with experience in DevOps for large scale IoT-Platforms.
Previsouly, at Bosch, he was developing architect where he designed and together with his team developed a scalable cloud service providing IoT solutions to work with their devices utilizing the "Digital Twin" pattern.
The foundation of this cloud service was extracted as Open Source project under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse Ditto.
Thomas co-created this project and is until today the most active committer to the project.
Senior Software Developer, beyonnex.io GmbH
Mar, 2023 - Present
Making real estate smarter, using Eclipse Ditto as the heart of the beyonnex.io Enterprise-IoT-Suite.
Project lead of Eclipse Ditto project, taking care of communication with the community, building up the brand, giving talks about the project
Senior Expert IoT, Bosch.IO GmbH
Apr, 2018 - Feb, 20234 years 10 months
Developing the Internet of Things for Bosch with the power of Digital Twins.
Both in the Open Source (Eclipse Ditto) and at Bosch IoT Things service in order to use "devices as a service".
Project lead of Eclipse Ditto project, taking care of communication with the community, building up the brand, giving talks about the project
Lead developer of the commercial Bosch IoT Things service based on Eclipse Ditto
Bosch representative for the Web of Things (WoT) working group at the W3C, bringing the standardization of WoT forward
Senior Software Developer, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
Jan, 2015 - Mar, 20183 years 3 months
Lead developer of the service for managing Thing state inside Bosch's IoT platform:
Architectural design of the cloud enabled reincarnation of the former M2M product: Bosch IoT Things
Developer leading the implementation of the cloud enabled Bosch IoT Things service
Establishment of DevOps principles in order to operate the developed service in Bosch propriearty and two public clouds (AWS + Azure)
Extraction of an Open Source core of the proprietary codebase and creation of a new Open Source project: Eclipse Ditto
Technical Advisor / Consultant, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
Jan, 2014 - Dec, 201411 months
Consulting activities regarding use of the products developed by Bosch Software Innovations, learned to view them from the side of the customers. Technical advisory for products:
Machine to Machine platform: "M2M"
Identity Management system: "IM"
Rule Engine: "Visual Rules"
Software Developer, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
Sep, 2011 - Mar, 20131 year 7 months
Different design and development positions with focus on web frontends:
Feature development in a CRM product in the finance domain of Innovations Software Technology GmbH (Bosch Group)
Design and implementation of a performance monitoring/tracing tool for an automotive use case
UX design, technical design and implementation of a web frontend for an Identity Management system
Design of a lightweight web frontend integrating existing web applications in a common frame
Junior Software Developer, Innovations Software Technology GmbH (Bosch Group)
Oct, 2010 - Aug, 201110 months
First position hired as a Junior Developer
Feature development in a CRM product in the finance domain of Innovations Software Technology GmbH (Bosch Group)
Project Lead and Committer of Eclipse Ditto, Eclipse Foundation
Sep, 2017 - Present
Co-Founder of Eclipse Ditto, an Open Source Digital Twin framework built for the cloud and supporting open standards like W3C Web of Things (WoT) for modeling twin capabilities:
Project lead of Eclipse Ditto project
Most active committer to the Eclipse Ditto codebase
Community management and buildup
Technical marketing in the form of building up the brand, giving talks, maintaining the website
Project Lead of OSS project Eclipse Ditto
Sep, 2017 - Present
Developing Architect
Documentation in arc42
Functional Programming
Reactive Programming
(Library) API Design
Agile Principles
CI/CD
Containerization
Docker
Kubernetes
Ansbile
Monitoring
Tracing
Application of Digital Twin pattern
Feature knowledge of all existing features
Scalability and tuning expert
Code ownership for big parts of the codebase
Integration of foreign systems
Apache Maven
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Bash
Branching Models
Monorepo
GitHub
Actors
Persistence
Clustering
Sharding
Distributed Data
Akka Streams
Akka HTTP
Apache Pekko
Indexing
Queries
Aggregation pipelines
MQTT
Eclipse IoT
Thing Descriptions
Thing Models
WoT Architecture
HTTP Protocol Binding
JSON Schema
Licenses Characteristics
Community Involvement
Software Architecture, Application Architectures, Master of Science, HFU - Hochschule Furtwangen University
Mar, 2009 - Jul, 2010
1.3Integration Engineering
Software Architecture
Business Structure and IT strategy
Business Software Engineering
Modeldriven Software Development
Service Oriented Architectures
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, HFU - Hochschule Furtwangen University
Sep, 2005 - Feb, 2009
1.4Computer Science Foundations
Algorithms and Data Structures
Databases
Programming in Java
Software Engineering
Project Management
Computer Networks
Software Quality
System Development
International Management
SOA and Web 2.0
Distributed Objects
Computantionally Intensive Methods
C#
XML and Databases
Digital Image Data Processing
Advanced Data Structures
Year's best student , HFU - Hochschule Furtwangen University, Computer Science department
Awarded on: Feb 27, 2009
Received the award for the year's best Computer Science graduate in 2009
Eclipse Ditto: Wer ist dein Digital Twin? , Entwickler.de
Published on: Oct 17, 2022
Article (in German language) about Eclipse Ditto and the benefits of the "Digital Twin" pattern for IoT solution development.
Eclipse Ditto Uses Digital Twins to Enable IoT Interoperability , Eclipse Foundation
Published on: Sep 28, 2022
Newsletter article about how Eclipse Ditto can achieve Interoperability in the IoT using "Digital Twins" and the W3C Web of Things standard.
Eclipse Ditto: How digital twins boost development in the IoT , Bosch.IO
Published on: Oct 18, 2018
Introduction about Eclipse Ditto and how the "Digital Twin" pattern can help in IoT solution development.