Richard Watts

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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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.

Richard Watts's Current Company Details
ThoughtRiver

Thoughtriver

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thoughtriver.com
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22
Richard Watts Work Experience Details
  • Thoughtriver
    Cto
    Thoughtriver
    United Kingdom
  • Freelance
    Independent Contractor
    Freelance
    United Kingdom
  • Zilliqa
    Chief Technology Officer
    Zilliqa Sep 2022 - Present
    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.
  • University Of Cambridge
    External Faculty Board Member
    University Of Cambridge Nov 2022 - Present
    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.
  • Selwyn College, University Of Cambridge
    Director Of Studies In Computer Science
    Selwyn College, University Of Cambridge Jun 2001 - Present
    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.
  • Kynesim Ltd
    Director
    Kynesim Ltd Nov 2018 - Present
    Cambridge, United Kingdom
    I'm a director at Kynesim Ltd, where I remain available to discuss technical or managerial issues and give advice.
  • Kynesim
    Founder & Cto
    Kynesim Nov 2007 - Present
    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 projects ranging from wearable lighting systems to frame-accurate data center based video streaming systems, to home hubs, Zigbee sensors, automotive infotainment and powertrains, transport billing, clinical trial, UAVs and GSM backhaul systems.We maintain a few hopefully useful free software projects for in-kernel messaging, firmware builds and other such core applications and we're occasional contributors to various open source projects - see https://github.com/kynesim for details.Do get in touch if any aspect of our work interests you.I started Kynesim and acted as CEO for four years; during that time I've architected and managed several major consumer electronics projects to completion---including IoT projects using proprietory radio protocols, LPWAN, Zigbee HA 1.2.1, and ZWave plus, together with other projects from CCTV camera access for the Metropolitan police to automotive video data recorders for US road vehicles. My particular areas of interest are in architecture and systems programming (I spend a lot of time in the Linux kernel and trying to push the limits of the silicon blocks in microcontrollers).
  • Bigpay | Challenge Banking
    Advisor
    Bigpay | Challenge Banking Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
  • Bigpay
    Group Cto
    Bigpay Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
    Cambridge, United Kingdom
    I'm Group CTO at BigPay, building a brand new mobile bank.
  • Amino Communications Ltd
    Software Consultant
    Amino Communications Ltd Jan 2006 - Nov 2007
    Various projects including Windows Media support and some HD work with ST71xx chips. Managed Amino's Cambridge office for two months to Nov 2007.
  • Sj Consulting Ltd
    Software Consultant
    Sj Consulting Ltd Sep 2004 - Jan 2006
    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 delivery and support of developed code.SJ Consulting Ltd was bought by Amino Communications in January 2006.
  • Transversal
    Product Manager
    Transversal Oct 2001 - Oct 2003
    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.
  • University Of Cambridge
    Research Assistant
    University Of Cambridge 1995 - 1997
    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.

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