Resume

Cambridge/Bristol/London, UK

Hello,

I am a leader of high-performing and deeply technical engineering teams, in projects ranging across software engineering and computer processor design.

My engineering skills and knowledge span from the very top of the stack (web tech) down to almost the very bottom (SystemVerilog), and components in between such as compilers, debuggers and formal verification.

I am a three-time startup founder with board experience and have raised or turned-over a total of £4.5 million. I have been fortunate to collaborate with leaders from across industries and continents, giving me insights into organisations of all sizes.

My experience communicating complex topics, including to people with no prior knowledge, via presentations, whitepapers and self-produced videos, has helped me in every aspect of my work, and is demonstrated in my roles as a founder, teacher, mentor and content creator.

My technical depth, ability to adapt to new information, and consistency in approach enable me to lead projects with significant uncertainties or unknowns. I can motivate teams through such projects because I actively build trust and supportive relationships both with and within teams.

I believe, from my experience building a fully remote startup across 2 continents, and a UK hybrid-working startup, that regularly spending time together is essential for teams to be effective. At VyperCore, I travelled weekly between Bristol, Cambridge and London, to build and maintain relationships in our team.

I am seeking an opportunity to work on a world-changing problem with commercial potential which will have a visible impact in the next 10 years.

For the right opportunity, I am willing to relocate within the UK, Europe or USA. I am currently based in Royston (UK), with direct routes to Cambridge and London.

If you have a role available that you think I might be interested in, please get in touch.

Ed

March 2025
Royston, England

Experience

VyperCore
Co-founder & CTO

2023 – 2025 • Novel CPU design

VyperCore set out to commercialise my PhD research. Co-founded with Russell Haggar, we raised £4m seed funding from five UK-based VCs and hired a team of 17 people, including 14 engineers split across Cambridge and Bristol. As CTO, I led the technical programme scaling-up the original IHGC design. I filed 4 patents (with several more in draft) working directly with Marks & Clerk. As a co-founder, I had plenty of non-engineering work, for example: pitching to investors, answering technical due diligence, creating videos, managing partnerships with world-leading processor vendors, and being a financial controller. I was also one of the four directors of the company.

Carbon accounting startup
Lead Engineer

2022 – 2023 • Engineering & Product

Midspace (Clowdr CIC)
Co-founder & CEO

2020 – 2022 • Virtual academic conferences

Midspace was a non-profit addressing the climate impacts of academic conferencing. As it happened, Covid19 created additional demand for virtual academic events, which have challenges of scale and complexity that Zoom and Hopin were not tackling. We grew organically, turning over more than $450k in our first 16 months. One of my co-founders and I built the platform from scratch. I worked on engineering, recruitment, marketing, sales, negotiation, contracts, live support, invoicing, financial control, legal & compliance, and managing service providers. We worked with clients across the world, particularly public and 3rd sector US events. Our fully remote team grew to 7 people across the UK, USA and The Netherlands.

YouTube: @EdNutting
Creator

2020 • Introduction to Computer Processors

University of Bristol
Teaching Assistant

2015 – 2020 • Computer Architecture & Verification

University of Bristol
Workshop Leader

2016 – 2019 • Digimakers Outreach Programme

Essaimage Associates
Technical Recruiter

2014 – 2018 • CV review and technical interviews

FlingOS
Creator

2013 – 2016 • Educational OS in C# with videos

SlideMyWay
Software Engineer

2011 – 2013 • Cutting-edge online advertising tech

Education

Cambridge Judge Business School
Leadership & Management courses

2024

• Transformational leadership
• Leading strategic projects successfully
• Creating high-performance teams

Royal Academy of Engineering
Individual professional development

2023 – 2024 • Shott Scale-up Accelerator

QTEC
Startup Incubator

2018 – 2019 • Hosted at University of Bristol

University of Bristol
PhD Researcher

2017 – 2020 • Supervised by: David May, Kerstin Eder, Nicolas Wu

Formal Verification of the IHGC hardware using Agda. Subsequently co-founded VyperCore to commercialise this research.

University of Bristol
Undergraduate

2014 – 2017 • Computer Science and Electronics 1st class honours, BEng

* The Merchant Venturers School of Engineering (MVSE) has since been renamed to the School of Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Engineering Mathematics (SCEEM).