S9 E8: The IoT Data Backbone: Engineering Ultra-Lightweight MQTT Architectures and Scaling Critical Edge Infrastructure with Roger Light, Creator of Eclipse Mosquitto & Co-Founder of Cedalo

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jan 23, 2024 · 21m

Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in parallel, he worked on hobby projects that eventually led him to a new venture. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 young boys and a dog - so he mentioned things get a little loud and crazy at home. He loves spicy food, but has been enjoying the visit to the local carvery lately.

In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was being used to track electricity monitoring. What he realized was that an open source version of…