Rob Taylor
CSO & CTO at ChipFlow
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Taylor is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 20 years of experience building open source software companies and deep-tech startups across semiconductors, FPGAs and embedded Linux. As CEO and now CSO/CTO of ChipFlow he is pioneering an open-source platform that dramatically lowers the cost and complexity of custom silicon for product companies, drawing on prior CEO and founder roles at Reconfigure.io, Codethink and Collabora. He combines hands-on engineering — including full‑stack contributions to projects like Brewtarget — with strategic roles at Arm and the Open Invention Network where he helped align open source and IP policy for major industry players. Based in the High Peak, England, Rob is focused on supply-chain disintermediation and practical ways open source can reshape hardware design, pairing product instinct with deep technical fluency from Cambridge Computer Science.
21 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Computer Science, MA, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
cross-platform10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
multiplatform10
configuration-management9
xml8
build-automation8
ui-design7
graphical-user-interface7
user-interface7
unit-testing6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Brewtarget/brewtarget
Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
Main brewtarget source code repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob contributed to the Brewtarget project by implementing new features and improving the application's functionality. Their work included adding support for imperial measurements, unit systems, and temperature scales. They also addressed a crash related to database handling and improved configuration storage using XDG standards. Furthermore, the user made modifications to build processes and file management, enhancing the overall usability of the project.
code-repositorycpp
robtaylor/vim-config
Jul 2015 - May 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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