Richard Watts
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Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom 13 work roles 2 schools
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Richard Watts is listed as CTO at ThoughtRiver, a company with 22 employees, based in United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Richard Watts.

Richard Watts previously worked as Independent Contractor at Freelance and Chief Technology Officer at Zilliqa. Richard Watts holds Ph.D., Computer Science (User Interface Design) from University Of Cambridge.

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About Richard Watts

I'm an experienced software engineer and technical manager.In 2007, I founded Kynesim - a high-end technology solutions company who today work mainly in high-value hybrid embedded/cloud systems for industrial, automotive, medical, and consumer electronics clients.Since late 2018, I've been building a new mobile bank with BigPay.I am a bye-fellow and director of studies in Computer Science from Selwyn College Cambridge, from which I hold a PhD.

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ThoughtRiver
Thoughtriver
CTO
United Kingdom
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22
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13 roles · 31 years

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Independent Contractor

Freelance

United Kingdom

Chief Technology Officer

Current

London Area, United Kingdom

Technology strategy, team development (hiring, budgeting), systems design, technology migration and implementation for one of the first sharded layer 1 blockchain networks.

Sep 2022 - Present

External Faculty Board Member

Current

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I serve as an external member of the faculty board for the Department of Computer Science & Technology, which oversees the running of the department, and serve a similar role on the degree committee for the department.

Nov 2022 - Present

Director Of Studies In Computer Science

Current

Cambridge

I am the director of studies in Computer Science for Selwyn College, Cambridge where I also hold a bye-fellowship. I'm involved in admissions interviews, small group teaching, and academic oversight.My research interests are currently mostly in systems programming and computer architecture.

Jun 2001 - Present

Director

Current

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I'm a director at Kynesim Ltd, where I remain available to discuss technical or managerial issues and give advice.

Nov 2018 - Present

Founder & Cto

Current

Cambridge

Kynesim develops and consults on innovative hardware and software to order, mainly for industrial, consumer and medical clients. We're particularly good at building complex and challenging cutting-edge systems on tight deadlines and we've extensive experience in IoT, telemetry and video systems; we've worked with private and public sector clients on.

Nov 2007 - Present

Group Cto

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I'm Group CTO at BigPay, building a brand new mobile bank.

Nov 2018 - Aug 2022

Software Consultant

Various projects including Windows Media support and some HD work with ST71xx chips. Managed Amino's Cambridge office for two months to Nov 2007.

Jan 2006 - Nov 2007

Software Consultant

Sj Consulting Ltd

Involved in several projects for SJ Consulting - a small embedded systems consulting company in Cambridge, including an early DVB PVR, hardware H.264 accelerator, Xilinx DDR memory controller, JTAG test harnesses, and the implementation of VC-1 and WMA codecs on TI64XX DSPs. This included client liason, requirements analysis, some hardware design and.

Sep 2004 - Jan 2006

Product Manager

I spent from October 2001 to October 2003 working on then start-up Transversal's flagship knowledge management product, Metafaq, first as a software engineer and then as product manager, ensuring that the features we'd promised our customers got delivered on time and on budget.

Oct 2001 - Oct 2003

Research Assistant

I spent a couple of years working on augmented reality systems - coincidentally enough, a lot of this dealt with video, image capture and image processing.

1995 - 1997 ~2 yrs
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Richard Watts education

Ph.D., Computer Science (User Interface Design)

Activities and Societies: President of CUCS, President of CU Rock SocietyMy dissertation was on the Automatic Generation of User.

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What company does Richard Watts work for?

Richard Watts works for ThoughtRiver.

What is Richard Watts's role at ThoughtRiver?

Richard Watts is listed as CTO at ThoughtRiver.

Where is Richard Watts based?

Richard Watts is based in United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom while working with ThoughtRiver.

What companies has Richard Watts worked for?

Richard Watts has worked for Thoughtriver, Freelance, Zilliqa, University Of Cambridge, and Selwyn College, University Of Cambridge.

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Richard Watts's colleagues at ThoughtRiver include James Peacock, Alex Tame, John Hunt, Kirsty Alderton, and Alice Paley.

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Richard Watts holds Ph.D., Computer Science (User Interface Design) from University Of Cambridge.

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