Patrick Fenner
Engineering Director at DefProc Engineering
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Fenner is an engineering director and co-founder of DefProc with 14 years' experience turning R&D and rapid prototypes into manufacturable IoT products across energy, healthcare and environmental sectors. He blends hands-on hardware and software design with product-stage risk reduction—scoping, regulatory-aware prototyping and small-scale manufacture—to help organisations ship practical, cost-effective solutions. Patrick also drives community connectivity as an initiator of The Things Network Liverpool, deploying open-access LoRaWAN gateways, and has delivered national training programmes to enable clients to self-sustain their systems. His background in advanced engineering (MEng and MPhil from Loughborough) underpins a functionality-first approach that prioritises real-world performance over academic idealism.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Design of Engineering Wing Skin Structures, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Design of Engineering Wing Skin Structures at Loughborough University
Github Skills (90)
morse10
arduino-ide10
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bluepill9
stream9
arduino9
morse-code8
kicad8
samd218
lcd8
debugging8
arduino-library7
pwm7
casio7
cnc-controller7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DoESLiverpool/Cheertree
Dec 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years
ttn-liv/rpi-gateways
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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