Codethink

We specialise in system-level software infrastructure to support advanced technical applications, working across a range of industries including finance, automotive, medical, telecoms.

Typically we get involved in software architecture, design,  development, integration, debugging and improvement on the deep scary plumbing code that makes most folks run away screaming.

Real Open Source Experts

We are experts in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). We participate in upstream and are active contributors to the Linux kernel and a wide range of FOSS projects, processes and cultures.

We value highly the amazing contributions, made over decades, by the Free Software and Open Source communities.

We help customers and partners take maximum advantage from the knowledge and technologies developed by the FOSS community. Even on proprietary projects, our teams draw on and benefit from FOSS people, code, processes, insights and values.

Philosophy and Approach

We promise to tell the truth and to act ethically. We promise to do our best. We promise to answer when customers ask for help. And we promise to fix our mistakes.

We aim to be great at software design and development, and to improve the practice of software engineering as a real engineering discipline.

We have learned that we can only achieve this by sharing what we know, and absorbing what others can teach us.

Apparently we scare some software companies. Particularly those who claim to be Linux experts but do not actually participate in the Linux development community. And those who advise silly things like `hardening` Linux, or closed-source tooling for Linux development, or sticking with an old kernel forever.