Tim Jones

Tim Jones

Engineer · Dad · Dog Owner. Always building something.

Senior engineer with 14+ years across startups, research, and enterprise. Specialising in distributed .NET systems, cloud platforms, and low-level performance work. Tech-led teams, shipped funded products, and built tooling still used by UK Police. Active open-source maintainer with 1.6k+ stars across infra tooling, a 3400 ELO chess engine, ML libraries, and creative-code experiments.

2025 Aqovia, Tech Lead Mar 2025 – PresentArchitected banking & crypto mobile application, lead development on enterprise .NET / Azure / Firebase / Flutter neobank. .NET · Azure · Firebase · Flutter · EfCore · CI/CD
2023 StoreBoost, Tech Lead Nov 2023 – Jan 2025Led full .NET backend rewrite; introduced LocalStack dev environment, CI/CD pipeline, and IaC. .NET · AWS · EfCore · GitHub Actions · LocalStack · IaC
2020 Tevent, Tech Lead Sep 2020 – Aug 2023Architected the platform from day one; helped secure seed funding from 6 Silicon Valley investors; grew and led a remote team of 8. Blazor WASM · Azure · Cosmos DB · Serverless · CI/CD
2018 Aptacode, Founder / Consultant Oct 2018 – PresentBespoke .NET consultancy and the home for my open-source work (RackPeek, AsyncMonolith, Sapling). .NET · Docker · Kubernetes
2018 Abael, Contractor Sep 2018 – Aug 2020Built a bespoke desktop application supporting the client's behavioural psychology research, contributing to her successful PhD. WPF · ASP.NET Core · EfCore · SQL · Docker
2012 Daetech, Software Developer Feb 2012 – Sep 2018Designed and shipped multiple forensic video retrieval tools for desktop and mobile. Many still in widespread use across UK Police. C++ · WPF · Android · OpenCV

A production-grade rack in the garage with 10G networking, layered L3/L2 switching, UPS, full virtualisation stack, and a multi-RTX 3090 AI rig. My personal sandbox for hypervisors, containers, networking, and cybersecurity work, and where I dogfood projects like RackPeek.

RackPeek

CLI tool and WebUI to discover, manage, and document IT infrastructure and home lab. The most popular open-source project in the portfolio, built around core values of no telemetry, no ads, no tracking, and no artificial restrictions.

Sapling

A strong UCI chess engine rated ~3400 ELO, among the top open-source engines. NNUE evaluation, custom search, "my leaf nodes are growing".

aid-cli

A Rust CLI toolkit bundling 40+ everyday developer utilities into a single fast binary. JSON tools, encoders, network helpers, and more.

AsyncMonolith

Facilitates simple, durable and asynchronous messaging in .NET apps with transactional reliability.

Fortitude

Cheat reality just enough to achieve your objective. A lightweight, fluent, middleware-powered fake server for advanced HTTP testing.

GrandChessTree

A public distributed effort to traverse the depths of the game of chess. Bitboard-based perft analysis.

vcortex

Lightweight CPU/GPU machine learning for .NET. Neural network training and inference with ILGPU acceleration.

Art

Blending art and coding through generative and creative code art projects. See also art.timmoth.com.

EmuChip

Experimental emulator projects, including a Chip-8 emulator with WASM compilation and interactive demos.

DocMigrator

Zero downtime on-the-fly document migrations. Enterprise-grade data migration tooling.

Cloud Rec Room

A collection of multiplayer ice-breaker party games. Built with Blazor Server, deployed on Kubernetes with MongoDB.

Romp Island

"65% art project, 35% MMORPG". A creative 3D web-based world built with Three.js and SignalR.

CalendarPod

"Scheduling Simplified". Intuitive collaborative scheduling and resource management platform with configurable recurring rules, drag-and-drop adjustments, white-label branding, and real-time multi-user interaction.

Solar When

Free UK solar forecast API with hourly PV production predictions, Octopus Energy Agile price integration, and intelligent battery charge scheduling. Embeddable SVG stats cards for dashboards and READMEs.

Languages

C# Python Rust TypeScript JavaScript C++ Java Bash

.NET Ecosystem

ASP.NET Core Blazor EfCore SignalR WASM ILGPU

Cloud & Infra

Azure AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform ARM Templates LocalStack Ansible

Creative & Systems

Three.js WebGL Ray Tracing Emulation Generative Art TensorFlow OpenMPI CircuitPython Raspberry Pi

Databases & Services

SQL Server Cosmos DB MongoDB PostgreSQL Redis Serverless

CI / Testing / Tools

GitHub Actions CircleCI mkdocs Ansible CLI Dev HPC