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Resume

Cambridge/Bristol/London, UK

Hardware innovation leader and three-time startup founder. Engineering leader with expertise from web technologies to SystemVerilog, having raised £4M and led teams developing breakthrough processor architecture technology.

Professional Summary

Hardware innovation leader with over a decade of experience bridging the gap between software and hardware through innovative processor architecture research. I have identified and solved the fundamental abstraction gap between object-oriented software and linear hardware memory models.

As a three-time startup founder, I have raised £4M in venture capital, led teams of up to 17 people (14 engineers), and filed 4 patents. My companies have generated nearly $500K in revenue while serving clients globally. I have technical expertise spanning from web technologies to SystemVerilog, including compilers, debuggers, and formal verification using Agda.

My research background includes formal verification of the Integrated Hardware Garbage Collector (IHGC), working with Professor David May (designer of Inmos and XMOS processors). This work demonstrated 2-5x performance improvements while eliminating memory safety vulnerabilities at the hardware level.

I have experience building and leading both fully remote international teams (across US, UK, Netherlands) and hybrid UK teams. My leadership approach emphasizes building trust and maintaining strong relationships, evidenced by weekly travel between Bristol, Cambridge, and London to support team cohesion at VyperCore.

My communication experience includes self-produced educational videos, technical presentations to investors, and complex technical documentation. I have taught at university level and received awards for computer science outreach, reaching over 1,000 primary school students.

I am seeking opportunities to apply breakthrough technology to solve commercially valuable problems with measurable impact. I am open to relocation within the UK, Europe, or USA for the right opportunity.

Ed Nutting
March 2025
Royston, England

Experience

VyperCore

Co-founder & CTO

2023 – 2025 • Innovative Processor Architecture

Co-founded with Russell Haggar to commercialize Object Memory Architecture research, raising £4M Series Seed funding from five UK VCs. Built and led a team of 17 people (14 engineers) across Cambridge and Bristol offices. As CTO, scaled the original IHGC design and demonstrated 2-5x performance improvements while eliminating memory safety vulnerabilities. Filed 4 patents working with Marks & Clerk IP attorneys. Responsibilities included investor pitching, technical due diligence, partnership management with leading processor vendors, and serving as company director and financial controller.

Emizio

Lead Engineer

2022 – 2023 • Carbon Accounting Platform

Lead engineer for carbon accounting and sustainability platform. Responsible for technical architecture and engineering leadership. Emizio sold their business to a larger competitor within 9 months of me leaving, largely following the product plan I had developed.

Midspace (Clowdr CIC)

Co-founder & CEO

2020 – 2022 • Virtual Conference Platform

Co-founded virtual conference platform serving academic institutions globally during the pandemic. Bootstrapped to nearly $500K revenue in first 16 months, serving over 30 conferences with thousands of participants each. Built platform from scratch using open-source technologies. Led fully remote team of 7 people across UK, USA, and Netherlands. Managed all business operations including engineering, recruitment, sales, contracts, live event support, financial control, and legal compliance. Primarily served public and third-sector US academic institutions.

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 & Developer

2013 – 2016 • Educational Operating System

Developed C# operating system requiring custom compiler from MSIL to assembly code. This project led to discovery of the fundamental abstraction gap between C#'s object memory model and hardware's linear memory architecture — the foundation of subsequent PhD research and Object Memory Architecture breakthrough.

Imagination Technologies

Intern

2013 – 2014 • Windows Graphics Drivers Team

Work experience and internships with Windows Graphics Drivers team during GCSEs and A-levels. Exposure to low-level systems programming, operating systems, drivers, and hardware interfaces. This experience revealed the fundamental layers beneath application programming and influenced subsequent career direction.

Slide My Way

Co-founder & Software Engineer

2011 – 2013 • HTML5 Advertising Platform

Co-founded at age 15, developing the first complete HTML5 animated advertising platform with in-browser editor, launching nearly 10 months ahead of Google's equivalent. Demonstrated early ability to identify market opportunities and execute innovative technical solutions, though unable to compete with Google's market reach.

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

⭐ Boeing award for best thesis

Awarded for the best final-year thesis of 3rd and 4th years (masters students) in my peer group.

⭐ MVSE award for significant contribution to outreach programme

I started the Digimakers Roadshow programme which has now reached over 1,000 Bristol primary school students in over a dozen schools.

✅ Dissertation graded 83% and formed the starting point of my PhD studies

* 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).