Steven Willmott
CEO At Safe Intelligence at Piton Capital
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Willmott is a founder and technology executive who blends deep academic pedigree—a PhD in AI from EPFL and 100+ scientific publications—with hands-on startup and product leadership, currently serving as CEO of Safe Intelligence and Venture Partner at Piton Capital. He built and scaled API infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of 3scale (acquired by Red Hat) and later led API platform work at Red Hat as Senior Director, then moved into AI-focused ventures and angel investing. His career uniquely spans distributed systems research, European and NASA R&D program evaluation, and practical product execution across the US and UK. An active community contributor to API standards and conferences, he also publishes regular AI commentary at steampunkai.com, signaling a rare combination of rigorous research insight and market-facing product instincts.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Artificial Intelligence / Informatics, Msc Artificial Intelligence / Informatics at The University of EdinburghPhD Artificial Intelligence / Distributed Systems / Communication Networks, PhD Artificial Intelligence / Distributed Systems / Communication Networks at EPFLBsc Mathematics, Bsc Mathematics at University of Warwick
german, spanish, french, english
Github Skills (19)
openresty8
api7
lua6
traits6
hat6
api-manager5
nginx5
rest-api5
chain4
3scale4
api-gateway4
luajit4
semaphore4
api-management3
openapi3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
njyx/3scale-api-workshop
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Red Hat API Integration & Management Workshop
Contributions:9 pushes in 9 days
apiworkshopred-hathatapi-integration
timewarpinc/ArtExcercise
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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