Providing Genius.

Rob Taylor

Rob has been developing software since he was just nine years old. His personal focus has always been on working with powerful middleware and frameworks with the aim of providing a far more compelling user experience. Having been educated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cambridge University, Rob began working on embedded Linux systems back in 1999.

Through this work he started to become increasingly involved within the open source community. The attraction lay in what Rob recognised as a superior development methodology and the opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest minds that the industry had to offer. In the January of 2007 Rob founded Codethink Ltd.

He continues to attract like-minded individuals with a variety of specialist skills to the company with the aim of driving forward Open Source technologies and providing expert consultancy to businesses around the world

Open source projects: Vala, Tracker, D-Bus, HAL

Mark Doffman

Having graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Mark went off to work on communications protocol software for TTPCom. A few months after Codethink Ltd was founded in the January of 2007, Mark joined Rob Taylor as Codethink's first employee. An expert in his field, Mark has been instrumental in driving Linux Accessibility forward. Working with both Gtk+ and Qt accessibility both on the desktop and for embedded platforms such as Maemo, he has built up strong expertise in a11y and Destkop systems software. In parallel to his work in Accessibility, Mark is also a maintainer and project leader for AT-SPI D-Bus, a freedesktop hosted, cross platform a11y infrastructure.

Open source projects: AT-SPI, D-Bus, Gnome accessibility

Philip Van Hoof

Philip is a freelance software developer who has worked alongside Codethink Ltd on various projects. He specialises in creating, adapting and improving software for mobile and embedded devices on POSIX operating systems such as Linux. His expertise ranges from C and C++ application development to Linux kernel development. Philip also began the Tinymail project. During his professional career, he has also worked on several projects with Microsoft's C# and .NET development tools and environments, using framework components such as System.Windows.Forms and ASP.NET. Following this, Philip went on to do consultancy work as a Linux software developer. To date, he has implemented and worked on larger projects for Nokia, Maia Scientific, Lannoo, Boehringer Ingelheim, Newtec Cy., Alstom and Alcatel-Lucent.

Open source projects: Tinymail, Modest, Tracker, Anjuta, gnome-sudo, netclip, GNOME clipboard manager, GNOME Schedule

Karl Lattimer

Karl is a passionate and dedicated software developer. Throughout his education Karl excelled in all things IT related. In his free time he taught himself various programming languages and used this knowledge whilst working on a variety of different projects. His open source work began in earnest in 2005 when Karl worked on freevo 2 and web remote/streaming for the CeBIT trade show in Hanover Germany. He has developed many test widgets and applications, playing with user interaction and design concepts, and has also worked on the design & implementation of the Maemo 5 user interface, toolkit and application framework. Karl joined us at Codethink Ltd in the August of 2008 and mostly specialises in widget, UI and interaction design. He works with various technologies from flash, javascript and css, to gobject, gtk, clutter and Vala. More recently, he has branched out into DVCS, Wine, graphic and icon design.

Open source projects: Wine-doors, Wizbit, GNOME System Monitor, libsexier

Jürg Billeter

Jürg is a freelance software developer who works with Codethink Ltd on a regular basis. While over the years Jürg has worked on many different projects with many different people, from 2002 onwards, his main focus has been on open source. He has worked on various feature enhancements and bug fixes for open source projects, mostly part of GNOME, and in 2004 founded paldo, a small GNU/Linux distribution with a fellow student. More recently, Jürg founded the open source project Vala. Before joining us back in September '08, Jürg had spent five years studying at ETH Zürich where he received an Msc in Computer Science, and currently divides his time between tracker and Vala.

Open source projects: Vala, Tracker, Paldo, nautilus-image-converter

Ryan Lortie

Ryan, a proud Canadian born and raised, is another one of our talented software developers. He joined us at Codethink Ltd fresh from his studies at McMaster? University in Ontario Canada, where he earned himself an undergraduate degree in Software Engineering, and a graduate degree in Computer Science. In parallel to his studies, Ryan also discovered a passion for teaching while working as a teaching assistant. Ryan's first hacks on GNOME were on Rhythmbox. The tray icon and the small mode (ctrl+d) functionality both being his work. He hacked on applets for a while, the panel, and did some work on gnome-vfs and GVFS more recently, writing the entire trash backend. Ryan also wrote a large chunk of the networking code in GI0. Currently, Ryan is still living in Ontario and is working on GSettings and dconf.

Peter Charlton

Pete is our resident word-smith here at Codethink Ltd. A man of few words, unless they are written down, he is a former freelance proofreader and copy editor who has a deep interest in open source work. Despite studying a variety of different subjects over the years, Pete's love of writing has always shone through. During his free time, he can usually be found working on various short stories which he swears will never see the light of day. Since joining us in January 2009, Pete has been working on editing various documents both on contract and for open source, and has recently introduced himself to the GNOME Documentation team and offered his services. He is currently dividing his time between his work on open source documentation and the study of technical writing for future projects.

Alberto Ruiz

Alberto has been a self-confessed computer geek his entire life. In his time, Alberto has been a founding and board member of such open source organisations as GULIC (Canary Island Linux User Group) and GNOME Hispano. Through 2005 and 2006, he worked as an Open Source consultant for the Free Software Office in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, helping the University and the local government in their open source deployment strategy while simultaneously completing his studies in Computer Science. Following this, Alberto began working as an intern for Sun Microsystems, quickly getting promoted to full time software engineer. Two years later in early 2009 he joined us at Codethink Ltd, and began a new life of software development and bad weather in Manchester, England. At present, Alberto is focusing his attention on our R&D and marketing strategy.

Open source projects: Gtk+, PyGtk, Vala

Michael Dominic Kostrzewa

Michael is software engineer and consultant who specialises in programming computer graphics, UI design work, and robust application programming. Michael's first serious programming experiences centred around computer games. He began by hacking on 3D engines with a small team of like minded developers who went on to become the independent game development company Codeminion. Upon discovering Open Source and GNOME, Michael put his computer game programming behind him and began to focus on work within the community. His professional career took off when he was hired by Nokia as an Open Source GUI specialist. He worked with Nokia for two years, mostly overseeing the hildon/mobile UI code in the n800 and n810 projects. Following his time at Nokia Michael went on to spend a year at Novell as a Senior Software Engineer. There he was responsible for developing the graphics and animation framework for Moonlight, the .net implementation of Silverlight. Michael has recently began working with us at Codethink on the first of what we hope will be many projects to come.

Open source projects: Hildon, Moonlight, Mono, GObject objective-c bindings, Diva