Chidi Williams
Co-Founder at Interact
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolChidi Williams is a London-based software engineer and co-founder with nine years of experience building full-stack systems for startups and finance. After four years at Goldman Sachs and backend work at Eyowo, he now co-leads Rulebase (YC F24) while maintaining a fellowship at Interact, blending product-first startup instincts with production-grade engineering. He builds practical tooling—evident in his open-source work on Buzz, an offline Whisper-based transcriber where he implemented the PyQT UI, model download, and build automation. Comfortable across backend services and desktop UI, he favors shipping features that make ML accessible on personal machines. Known for moving between high-compliance environments and early-stage product work, he brings pragmatic engineering and a maker’s focus to founding teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SEO Career: Technology, SEO Career: Technology at SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)Y CombinatorBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Covenant UniversityWest African School Secondary Certificate Examination, West African School Secondary Certificate Examination at Palmville College
English
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Github Skills (21)
python10
whisper10
pyqt10
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
makefile7
fileio7
huggingface7
file-access7
file-handling7
file-processing7
html6
angular6
nodejs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chidiwilliams/buzz
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 348 commits, 560 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chidi added functionality to the Buzz project by adding a transcriber and a Makefile, allowing for offline audio transcription. They implemented a main entry point and a PyQT application, developing the user interface for recording and display functionality. Furthermore, the user refactored the GUI components and integrated a model download feature along with styling improvements.
whisperbuzztranslatesaudioopenai
chidiwilliams/nunjucks-templating-starter
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Generate and compile static HTML pages using Nunjucks with asset compilation and minification
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
compilationtemplatingmustachecompilestatic-html
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