Will Sonnex
Member Of Technical Staff at InkWell Solutions
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWill Sonnex is a programming-language–trained software leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, AI-driven systems and scaling engineering teams across startups and government contracts. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and former CTO of a climate-tech startup, he combines deep theoretical roots (PhD in Theoretical Computer Science, Cambridge) with hands-on delivery of large-scale pipelines using BigQuery, Vertex AI, Apache Beam, JAX and PyTorch. He has led teams of 40+ engineers, designed GPU-accelerated global optimizers that cut runtimes from hours to minutes, and produced surrogate models that generate billions of results with under 4% mean error. Comfortable moving between research and product, he’s coached public-sector projects through peak-demand crises and built resilient, cloud-first architectures. Colleagues would note he still thinks about algebraic properties of delivery workflows—so expect rigor alongside pragmatic execution.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Computer Science at University of CambridgeMaster of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, First Class, Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, First Class, Honours at Imperial College LondonProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Volunteer-Victoria/volunteer-victoria-community
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 reviews, 215 commits, 140 PRs in 4 months
f-algebra/elea-phd
Nov 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:294 commits, 119 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 4 months
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