Will Swannell
Chief Executive at Hire Space
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Swannell is a founder-operator and technical CEO with 12 years’ experience building Hire Space from zero to a UK market leader, driving millions of users and over £1bn in platform enquiries while owning full go-to-market and AI product strategy. Deeply technical, he’s been building with large language models since GPT-3, contributed early to LangChain and MCP, and holds two recent patents for AI application-layer innovations. His background blends rigorous academic training in ML, finance and theoretical physics (Princeton, Cambridge, Imperial) with hands-on product and engineering leadership. Well connected in the UK startup and VC community, he has led events for a major VC-founder network and commits time and capital through Founders Pledge. Notably, he pairs operator instincts with formal finance and modelling experience from L.E.K., enabling data-driven decisions across growth, product and fundraising.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil Finance, MPhil Finance at University of CambridgeBSc Theoretical Physics, BSc Theoretical Physics at Imperial College LondonA-levels, A-levels at Westminster SchoolCertificate Machine Learning, Certificate Machine Learning at Princeton University
Github Skills (64)
zero-configuration10
javascript10
npm10
realtime10
build-system10
microfrontend10
bun10
rpc10
app-platform10
inferno10
nodejs10
reactive-programming10
meteor10
mongodb10
react10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hirespace/hirespace-static
May 2015 - Jun 2022
Hire Space static assets
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 1 month
hireassetsstatic-assets
hirespace/sqs
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
A message queue using Amazon Simple Queue Service.
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 6 months
amazonmessage-queueawsmessage
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