Tim Wilkinson
Founder at nBitRobots
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Wilkinson is a founder and engineer based in Berkeley with 14+ years of experience building and exiting startups and leading engineering teams at scale. He blends deep systems and embedded expertise—having created the open-source Java VM Kaffe, designed JavaCard for Gemalto, and built secure .NET smart-card implementations—with product work across mobile, HTML5, and cloud services. At Twitter he focused on mobile and connectivity challenges for Emerging Markets, especially India, and he still gravitates toward real-world constraints where LTE and fiber aren’t guaranteed. He now runs nBitRobots, an experimental hardware/software robotics platform, and contributes to infrastructure automation projects like Proxmox on Raspberry Pi. Tim’s background spans research-level rigor (PhD-level training) to hands-on scripting and DevOps, making him comfortable from virtual machines to device-level firmware. He combines entrepreneurial grit with a knack for turning platform-level ideas into shipped products and licensing deals.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at City St George’s, University of LondonB.Sc. Computer Science and Microelectronics, B.Sc. Computer Science and Microelectronics at King's College London
Github Skills (11)
sh10
automation10
script10
automations10
shell10
raspberry-pi10
proxmox10
scripting10
debian10
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pimox/pimox7
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:105 commits, 14 PRs, 45 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on configuring and modifying the `pimox.sh` script, which likely automates the Proxmox installation on a Raspberry Pi. Their commits included updating URLs for fetching installation keys and repository configurations, as well as integrating pre-installation steps like installing `gnupg`. Furthermore, they modified the `RPiOS64autoinstall.sh` and `RPiOS64-IA-Install.sh` scripts to automate the installation process, showing a focus on infrastructure automation. These changes indicate a strong involvement in the deployment and configuration aspects of the project.
raspberry-piraspberryproxmox
aredn/aredn
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN)
Contributions:7 releases, 113 reviews, 279 commits in 1 year 4 months
network-datasoftware-defined-radioamateuremergencycommunications
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