Richard Watts
CTO at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Watts is a pragmatic CTO and founder who builds high-throughput, resource-efficient distributed systems and leads teams from prototype to production. He combines deep systems and embedded experience—dating back to founding Kynesim and work on video, IoT and automotive systems—with recent blockchain and fintech architecture at Zilliqa and BigPay. Richard excels at squeezing systems toward theoretical capacity to boost performance or cut cloud costs, and he pairs hands-on coding with hiring, ops and security practice building. Academically grounded with a PhD from Cambridge, he also serves as Director of Studies in Computer Science and has influenced departmental governance. Notably, his career spans both low-level hardware-adjacent engineering and large-scale cloud/ledger platforms, making him comfortable across the stack and regulatory environments. Based in the UK, he continues to advise companies while scaling legal-tech product engineering as ThoughtRiver’s CTO.
4 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science (User interface design), Ph.D., Computer Science (User interface design) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (23)
crypto10
blockchain-platform10
discord10
agentic10
telegram10
agent10
slack10
ai10
swarm10
chatbot10
operating-system10
ocaml9
verification9
blockchain9
smart-contracts9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Zilliqa/eliza
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Autonomous agents for everyone
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
rrw-zilliqa/eliza
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Autonomous agents for everyone
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 24 days
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