Heath Raftery
Co-Founder at informal
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHeath Raftery is an engineer-entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on experience designing embedded systems, power electronics and IoT fleets, currently co-founding Energy Diversions to commercialise long-duration energy storage. He blends deep technical fluency—from bare-metal C and signal processing to Unix administration and hardware-for-manufacture—with a practiced ability to translate customer intent into clear, auditable requirements. His career spans founding startups, winning a national innovation award for a mine-safety product, leading IEC 61508 functional safety efforts, and shipping firmware-to-cloud solutions at companies like balena. Heath is as comfortable sketching system architecture at the thousand-foot view as he is debugging transistor-level issues, and he deliberately designs for redundancy and operational simplicity. Outside product work he runs community and educational initiatives, reflecting a habit of turning technical curiosity into reusable learning and practical value.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Eng/Maths, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Eng/Maths, Computer Engineering, Mathematics at University of NewcastleLeadership Essentials, Organizational Leadership, Leadership Essentials, Organizational Leadership at TAFE NSWHSC, HSC at Glen Innes High School
English
Stackoverflow
3,871reputation
1.5mreached
147answers
18questions
Github Skills (200)
timeseries-database10
vim10
cpp10
python-scripts10
influxdb10
unix10
prometheus10
zsh10
low-latency10
time-series10
bash10
ethernet-ip10
google-sheets10
kapacitor10
mysql10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
hraftery/winot
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hraftery/minmea
Aug 2016 - Aug 2025
a lightweight GPS NMEA 0183 parser library in pure C
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
nmea-0183pure-cparser-librarygpsnmea
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