Oliver W
Co-founder & CTO at Arva AI (YC S24)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver W is a Co-founder and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack products and leading small engineering teams, currently scaling Arva AI (YC S24) to automate complex workflows with Google-backed research. He blends practical product engineering—moving platforms from MVP to enterprise at Seal—with deep front-end expertise demonstrated in open-source work on a rich-text editor (udeocode/plate), where he improved block selection, table features, and plugin behavior. Comfortable across TypeScript, React, backend services and ML tooling, Oliver has shipped production features at companies from The Trade Desk to Ocado Technology and prototyped real-time WebGL simulations during his studies. He is equally comfortable in IC and leadership roles, keeping a strong engineering craft while aligning product vision. Based in London and Cambridge-educated in Computer Science, he brings a research-minded approach to productising ML. An interesting detail: he moves fluidly between low-level UI nuance and ML-informed product decisions, a combination that helps Arva build usable AI-first interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Wilson's SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
slate10
react10
typescript-types10
ai9
javascript9
wysiwyg8
shadcn-ui8
testing6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
udecode/plate
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Rich-text editor with AI and shadcn/ui
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the rich-text editor's functionality, focusing on improving block selection behavior and fixing related bugs. They also implemented features like the "relative" option for the exit break plugin and added the query option for the mention plugin. Furthermore, the user worked on table-related features, including cell range selections and header column support, showcasing a broad understanding of the project's components.
airich-text-editorslatewysiwygreact
OliverWales/serenity
Jun 2021 - Dec 2023
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxc-plus-plus
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