Co-founder of Devtank, established in 2014. Tim’s passion and motivation to bring disruptive test and measurement products to the market have been a driving force. Tim initially took up the position of technical director and was directly responsible for a number of Devtank’s early hardware developments, including the HILTOP platform. In 2023, Tim was appointed as CEO following board-level changes as a result of rapid growth.

After graduating with a 1st Class Honours degree at the University of Leicester, Tim went on to join Rolls-Royce Aerospace in Derby for the first five years of his career and specialised in test and measurement solutions for electronic ground support and telemetry teams.

Tim went on to work for Newtons4th Ltd, developing high-performance power analysers before embarking on a series of freelance electronic design roles, including Rolls-Royce Nuclear.

Over the last 10 years, Tim has been instrumental in many high-profile product solutions, including Electric Vehicle chargers, both AC and Bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

Tim is an active Board member for OpenUK, covering strategic decision making around Open Hardware atthe Government level, and volunteers as a School Governor locally.

In 2021, at the COP26 Sustainability Conference, Glasgow, Tim scooped an award for the HILTOP platform as best “Open Hardware”. Tim also complete the nationwide “Help2Grow” management course in recent years.

Co-founder and technical expert. Joe’s broad experience in Linux, applications, embedded, and hardware brings enormous benefits to the team. Joe is responsible for the technical delivery of all projects and ensuring the team works to rigorous standards and thoroughly tests everything produced. Joe is an expert in source file management and licensing to ensure compliance on customer projects.

Joe spent nearly 12 years in the console and PC game industry for companies including Criteon Software (RenderWare) and Eurocom. He worked in a number of areas, from graphics and animation engines to art and animation tools, and finally, file systems and databases. After the game industry, he spent a number of years as an embedded GNU/Linux consultant, including CodeThink before Devtank. Joe comes from a multiple platform background, partly on older game consoles, but also having grown up on RISC OS (Acorn’s desktop ARM OS), before moving to Windows for work, then Linux for fun, and finally work. Joe has worked on GNU/Linux since 2012, often on ARM. Having started out in bedroom programming, Joe is a strong believer that everyone should have the option of source code and learning how things work.

 

Joe has several “drive by” commits in public projects, including the Linux Kernel itself. Joe has also joined round table discussions on the software skills gap at parliament and interviewed on podcasts.

Martin is a dedicated team player and visionary, leading himself and colleagues/staff to success. His long, successful career has earned him a wealth of knowledge and skills within engineering and business development, and he is still dedicating his time to developing his knowledge further while helping others in business and career development.

Martin began his career as an apprentice with British Coal. The 14 years Martin worked in mining, as an Electrical Engineer, took him from Student Apprentice through to Chartered Engineer.

In 1994, Martin took up the position of Technical Director at the family engineering business, Lindhurst Engineering (based in Sutton in Ashfield), becoming Managing Director in 1999, a position he still holds. Lindhurst Engineering has a reputation for providing innovative engineering support to a range of industries, providing bespoke solutions to customers’ challenges.

Martin has held or currently holds several Non-Executive Directorships and positions as Chair in limited companies, LEP sub-boards, and organisations working in the field of economic development. He is an Alumni Fellow of Nottingham Trent University and a Help To Grow Mentor for both Nottingham Trent University and the University of Derby.

In 2016, Martin was awarded an MBE for services to Business & Innovation and now presents and comments regularly on innovation, leadership, skills, and people development at Universities and trade organisations. In the same year, he won the SEMTA (Science, Engineering, Manufacturing Technologies Alliance) national skills champion for the year. In 2020, Martin made the Top 100 list in The Manufacturer magazine.

2024 saw Martin awarded an OBE for Services to Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire During the COVID-19 Pandemic, in the same year, he received an Outstanding Alumni Fellow award from Nottingham Trent University.

Cameron Joined Devtank in 2019. When interviewed he showed his passion for building, manufacturing and tinkering with all things mechanical. His favourite quote is “Measure twice and cut once”.

Cameron has recently taken on the role of Operations Manager following the completion of a 5 year Manufacturing Engineering Degree Apprenticeship course through the University of Derby.

In 2022, Cameron was awarded the Apprentice of the Year at the East Midlands Chamber Business Awards.