Robert Timms
Co-founder & CTO at Ionworks
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Timms is Co-founder and CTO of Ionworks and a core developer of PyBaMM, combining seven years of hands-on software engineering with deep mathematical training from a PhD in Mathematics. He builds open-core, physics-driven battery simulation tools that make thermal and electrochemical models fast, accurate, and accessible to industry researchers. Before founding Ionworks he translated multi-scale battery models from Oxford research into production-ready code, improving test coverage and stabilising thermal models in the widely used PyBaMM project. He has bridged academia and industry as a Faraday Institution Entrepreneurial Fellow and Head of Simulation at About:Energy, routinely delivering models for automotive and aviation applications. Based in Oxford and shaped by a Y Combinator cohort, he brings rare fluency in analytical modelling, scalable backend development, and product-focused engineering.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
S24, S24 at Y CombinatorYear Abroad, Mathematics, Year Abroad, Mathematics at University of AdelaideSir Harry Smith Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (4)
python10
refactor9
refactoring9
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pybamm-team/PyBaMM
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Fast and flexible physics-based battery models in Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:360 reviews, 1126 commits, 327 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focused on fixing scripts and addressing issues identified by Codacy. Code changes included updating the existing codebase and working on code quality and test coverage. The user also made changes to the existing thermal models.
chemical-engineeringphysicspower-systemspythonbattery
pybamm-team/workshop-notebooks
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
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