Real Thing Software was founded in 2022 by Eduard Kromskoy, a seasoned embedded systems and software engineer with over three decades of deep technical expertise. We deliver comprehensive engineering and architectural consulting across the entire embedded software lifecycle.
Our Founder’s Journey
Eduard Kromskoy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Radio Engineering and a Master’s degree specializing in Digital Filtering Devices from the Kharkiv Institute of Radio Electronics in Ukraine.
His career spans cutting-edge R&D and robust industrial applications across Europe and North America:
- Aerospace & Defense: Spent 9 years at JSC "NIIRI" (R&D Institute of Radio Measurements) developing ground-based receivers for meteorological and agricultural satellites, focusing heavily on signal, field, and image processing.
- Industrial Power Electronics: Joined Triol Corporation during their rapid market expansion, writing the fundamental DSP firmware for their line of thyristor-based Soft Starter products.
- North American Tech Leadership: Moving to Canada in 2002, Eduard spent 20 years engineering full-time for Toronto’s premier technology, security, and industrial firms, including Lava Computers, Indal Technologies (Curtiss-Wright), WinMagic, Certicom (BlackBerry/RIM), ViXS, and iS5 Communications (Phoenix Contact).
Consulting Excellence
After two decades of high-level industry contributions in Canada, Eduard established Real Thing Software to bring senior-level architectural oversight directly to companies in need of rapid, precise execution.
Real Thing Software proudly serves industry innovators, providing high-impact consulting for:
- Wind River: Enhancing guest OS support for the Helix certified virtualization platform.
- Fidus Systems, E.M. Fluids, and EH2: Delivering specialized engineering consulting to solve complex hardware-software integration challenges.