Martin Townsend
Director at Pioneering Concepts
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Townsend is a pragmatic embedded systems director with over 18 years’ experience designing real-time firmware and Yocto-based Linux platforms, currently leading embedded product work from board bring-up to custom SDKs in Swindon. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C/C++ and multiple RTOSes with a proven track record of shipping device drivers, device-tree work and custom U-Boot/kernel integrations across ARM, i.MX, Sitara and Zynq families. His background spans telecoms, smart energy and PLM projects where he pushed kernel patches (linux-wpan), implemented 802.15.4 MAC simulators and delivered government-backed trials—demonstrating both low-level systems craft and system-level project delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic manufacturing solutions (e.g. Linux-based i.MX6UL production flows), cross-toolchain SDKs and mentoring teams through complex bring-ups and debugging toolchains.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hon's) 2nd (ii), Computer Science, B.Sc. (Hon's) 2nd (ii), Computer Science at Brunel University of London
Github Skills (12)
microchip6
bitbake6
yocto-layer5
u-boot4
kernel4
yocto-project3
yocto3
openembedded3
caf2
linux1
linux-kernel1
odroid1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xsilon/x6losim
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:37 pushes in 2 months
xsilon/qemu
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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