I build things. Software, hardware, companies, and occasionally furniture.
Pilot. Sailor. Photographer. Perpetual tinkerer. French, living in California. Online since 1997.
🌊 Now — Founder of ChartedSails: performance analytics for sailors. Big data for small boats.
📡 Before — Field CTO at Memfault, Director of Software at Fitbit, developer experience at Pebble, co-founder/CTO of Backelite.
🛠️ For fun — see the pinned repos below. Also: small planes out of KSQL, HF radios, photography.
🎤 Recently spoke — Rust on Embedded Linux at EOSS 2024.
📖 Wrote — one of the first French books on iPhone development (2009).
📝 More at thomas.sarlandie.net · LinkedIn