Tim Ansell
Owner at wafer.space
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ansell is an experienced open-source software and embedded systems engineer with 26 years of hands-on experience, currently running wafer.space and leading hardware efforts as VP of Hardware at Arc PBC. He spent over 15 years at Google keeping large-scale services reliable and has a long track record of improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling for ASIC/FPGA projects. Tim is the founder of the timvideos community and has contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Yosys, IceStorm, OpenRAM and the SkyWater PDK, blending low-level hardware knowledge with DevOps automation. His work often focuses on making complex toolchains reproducible and user-friendly—rewriting build scripts, improving verification flows, and automating releases across diverse platforms. With dual engineering and philosophy degrees from the University of Adelaide and international study at KTH, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach and a knack for clear technical documentation.
26 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering & Bachelor of Arts Information Technology And Telecommunications Philosophy, Bachelor of Engineering & Bachelor of Arts Information Technology And Telecommunications Philosophy at University of AdelaideStudy Exchange, Study Exchange at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (81)
verilog10
restructuredtext10
python10
testing10
magicleap10
bash10
c1110
magick10
c1710
automation10
build-automation10
embedded10
markdown10
xilinx10
ram10
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
google/skywater-pdk
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:78 reviews, 283 commits, 194 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focused on converting documentation from Markdown to RST (reStructuredText) format. They updated existing files and added new ones, like a code of conduct, contributing guidelines, and a README.rst file with images and badges. Their work involved restructuring the documentation, adding sections for known issues, versioning, and device-related details, and also creating the initial structure for Sphinx-based documentation. The user's contributions centered on improving the clarity, organization, and formatting of the project's documentation.
foundryasicdesign-processskywaterasic-library
zestyping/q
Dec 2014 - Jul 2019
Quick and dirty debugging output for tired programmers. ⛺
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:45 commits, 27 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage for the project. They refactored existing tests, added new tests to cover argument order, and addressed issues related to resource management within the tests. Additionally, the user focused on fixing pep8 errors, improving code style, and making the tests more robust and reliable.
loggingdebuggingdirtydebugdebugger
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