George Whewell
Founder at Hellas
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Whewell is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years’ experience building and productionising distributed systems, microservices, and performance-sensitive backends across fintech, healthcare, and media. Based in Zurich, he brings deep systems and Rust expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like ethers-rs and maintaining undervolt, a Linux tool for safely undervolting Intel CPUs—alongside hands-on experience with blockchain integrations, Intel SGX enclaves, and data pipelines. He has led migrations from monoliths to Kubernetes-native architectures, implemented high-performance test doubles and CI practices, and driven cross-team data migrations and platform rollouts. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends low-level systems work with product-focused engineering, often surfacing non-obvious performance and security gains in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
English
Github Skills (22)
intel10
python10
hardware-interface10
linux10
elo10
hardware10
web3js10
ethereum10
rust10
blockchain9
systemd9
command-line-tool8
cli8
apidoc8
cli-tools8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
georgewhewell/undervolt
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Undervolt Intel CPUs under Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:1 review, 63 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on developing and maintaining the `undervolt` tool, which involves interacting with Intel CPUs under Linux. Their contributions include implementing features for reading and writing to MSR registers, incorporating temperature target controls, and adding functionality to read settings from a ThrottleStop configuration file. The user also refactored the code, fixed bugs, added documentation, and improved the tool's overall usability, and added instructions for systemd unit configuration.
musllinuxintelcpusundervolt
gakonst/ethers-rs
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust. https://docs.rs/ethers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the core library implementation, focusing on Ethereum and Celo, and associated tooling written in Rust. Their work includes adding fixed-size integer types, refactoring and improving the abigen functionality, and adding support for the BlockNative gas oracle. Additionally, the user made changes to enable the `Send` trait on TransactionFut, and included support for Fantom multicall addresses. They also contributed to fixes and re-exports.
ethereumrustblockchainceloweb3
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