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Thomas Reidemeister, PhD, LSSBB (*)
Director & CTO, Labforge Inc.
Embedded Wizard

I make my living designing vision systems. I manage a team of excellent engineers to bring artificial intelligence to affordable edge sensors. In addition to sensors, we worked on daring prototypes of voice recognition systems for secure access, autopilots for heavy-lift drones, and control concepts for automotive.

Before my tenure at Labforge, I worked on cutting-edge cloud solutions for IBM, jet engine control systems for Pratt & Whitney, safety-critical controllers for rockets, embedded medical devices with Enginuity. I served in the German Army 1st Armoured Division.

(*) Not just Lean Six Sigma, I am a real black belt.

Thomas Reidemeister

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  • 2013 - Now : Director & CTO Labforge Inc.
  • 2012 - 2014 : Research Associate, University of Waterloo
  • 2012 - 2014 : Research Partner, Pratt & Whitney Canada
  • 2011 - 2013 : Instructor, University of Waterloo
  • 2007 - 2011 : Research Partner, IBM Canada
  • 2008 - 2009 : Embedded Developer, Engenuity Corp.
  • 2003 - 2007 : Research Assistant, University of Magdeburg
  • 2000 - 2001 : Combat Engineer, German Forces
  • 2007 - 2012 : University of Waterloo: Computer Engineering, PhD
  • 2001 - 2007 : University of Magdeburg: Computer Systems in Engineering, Dipl. Ing.-Inf., BSc & MSc, with distinction
  • 1996 - 2001 : Albert-Einstein School

I consider myself baptized by more than two decades spent in embedded system realization, enterprise software, small business administration, executive management, and teaching university-level operating systems courses. Still some folks (e.g., recruiters) like to fish for extra beans. Please note some of these go back a few years ...

  • Martial Arts
  • Embedded and Retro Computing
  • Parenting
  • Youngtimer Restoration

See my blog for any of the above topics.




Why This Design? A Digital Nostalgia Trip?

This design is an unapologetic dive into the early 90s digital frontier. It's the very foundation of my relationship with technology.

In the early '90s, my folks enrolled me in adult computer and coding courses led by Deutsche Telekom. The curriculum was: MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, Lotus 1-2-3, AmiPro, Freelance Graphics, and Microsoft Quick Basic.

I quickly moved from Q-Basic to Turbo Pascal, and finally to Turbo C++. The sounds of floppy drives, the glow of CRT monitors, and the powerful text-based interfaces are permanently etched into my memory.

Because in a world of doom scroll, useless AI chat and spam bots, and information overload, this is the antithesis. This is a return to a time when digital spaces were clean, focused, purposeful, and hideously colored.

Welcome to DOS mode in VGA 437. Clean. No clutter. Just the information you need, presented with a dose of digital nostalgia. A safe space that will always be like it's 1993.



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