Ken Tindell
Chief Technology Officer at Canis Automotive Labs Ltd.
West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKen Tindell is a veteran automotive embedded systems leader and CTO with over 25 years of experience building real-time, in-vehicle networking and chip-design solutions. He co-founded multiple startups—including LiveDevices (acquired by Bosch/ETAS) and Volcano Communications Technology—and now leads Apitronix Semiconductor and Canis Automotive Labs, focusing on CAN and automotive Ethernet for secure, deterministic performance. His DPhil in real-time scheduling underpins a rare combination of deep academic grounding and hands-on engineering that has influenced production systems in Volvo cars. Notably, he was half of the team that reverse-engineered the Toyota RAV4 headlight theft device (CVE-2023-29389), demonstrating practical security research chops beyond traditional product work. Based in West Suffolk, he runs a technical blog and maintains an active engineering profile that bridges chip design, RTOS, and vehicle security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Real-time scheduling, DPhil Real-time scheduling at University of York
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Github Skills (64)
raspberry-pi-pico10
python10
low-level10
reference-implementation10
microcontroller10
hardware10
specification10
micropython10
bluetooth10
embedded10
scalable10
zephyr9
git-repository9
mbed9
infiniband9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kentindell/canhack
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
The Yes We CAN project of Canis Labs
Contributions:62 commits, 5 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 9 months
rp2040linuxraspberry-pi-picolow-level
min-protocol/min
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
The MIN protocol specification and reference implementation
Contributions:2 reviews, 50 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 11 months
specificationprotocol-specificationreference-implementation
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