People
Ten people. Small enough that whoever designs a thing usually builds it too, and always the person who answers for it.
Engineering & business
Founder & Chief Executive
Decides what gets built and why, and heads product development. In a company this size the specification meeting and the commercial conversation are the same conversation, so he runs both.
Also responsible for the coffee, and for burning it.
Execution & people
Chief Management Officer
Turns commitments into delivered work. Scheduling, hiring, and the daily business of keeping a small team pulling in one direction.
Keeps ten people pointed the same way, which is harder than anything else on this page.
Product development
Development engineer
Works alongside Vikrant on product development and carries it when he is elsewhere. Prototype boards, bring-up, and the iteration between the two.
Has released the smoke from more resistors than he will admit to.
Transformers & inventory
Bench expert
Winds the transformers, and runs the stores — what is on the shelf, what is on order, and what the next build is about to run out of.
Will tell you there are three left. There are three left.
Fabrication & assembly
Bench expert
Builds the physical product: fabrication, cutting, painting and final assembly — the distance between a working board and a finished machine.
Has been building things for longer than most of the bench has been alive.
Soldering & electronics
Assembly expert
Soldering and electronics assembly, and the functional check that decides whether a unit leaves the bench or goes back onto it.
Her joints are the ones we would photograph, if we photographed anything.
Test & magnetics
Test engineer
Tests what the bench builds, and winds the magnetic coils the rest of the product depends on.
Manages the company's humour. Unpaid position.
Bench support
Intern
Assists across the bench, usually on whichever build is closest to a deadline. The fastest way to learn every stage is to help at all of them.
Asked for a 2.2k by four people at once, and found all four.
Drones & CAD
Intern
Builds drones and does the CAD behind them — airframes, mounts, and the mechanical design that has to survive the landing as well as the flight.
Has crashed fewer airframes than he has designed. Narrowly.
Drones & graphics
Intern
Builds drones alongside Jay, and handles graphic design and editing for everything that leaves the workshop as an image.
Builds the drone, then draws it better than it actually looks.
Why drawings
We draw the team rather than photograph it, for the same reason the products are not photographed: what leaves this workshop belongs to somebody else, and the people who build it would rather be known for the work than for a headshot.
The portraits are a system, not likenesses — the same line weight as the mark, one mint accent each. If you want to know who you would actually be working with, ask on the first call. You will get names, and usually the person themselves on the line.