Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Will Faithfull · Lancaster, England
Experience
ExaDev
2013 - PresentCEO
Oct 2024 - PresentLancaster
Grown ExaDev from 2 graduate students in a bedroom to a 17-strong software consultancy, Google supplier, and serial startup practice in SaaS, AI, and Fintech across the UK, US, Australia and Germany.
CEO / Principal Engineer
Sep 2015 - Oct 2024Lancaster
95% Engineer, 5% CEO.
Co-Founder / CTO
Sep 2013 - Sep 2015Bangor
Various Startups · via ExaDev
2020 - PresentfCTO
Sep 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, London, Manchester
Advising, consulting, coaching, leading, and getting hands dirty in the code. The tech startups we've worked with in the UK, US and Australia have raised collectively over £77m in rounds from Seed to Series A+.
Software Engineer, Opal · via ExaDev
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024Google Labs
Contractor contributing to breadboard / Opal for Google Labs.
https://opal.withgoogle.comHM Revenue & Customs · via ExaDev and Equal Experts
2020 - 2024Consultant / Advisor
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024London
Ad-hoc advisor on data engineering and data science.
Data Science & Engineering Tech Lead
Jun 2022 - Mar 2024London
Technical lead of a data science and engineering team delivering petabyte-scale insights and predictive modelling.
Data Scientist
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022London
Part of the digital team delivering national COVID schemes including Job Retention, Statutory Sick Pay, Self Employment Income Support and Eat Out to Help Out.
Data Engineer
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021London
Software engineering, data science and machine learning at petabyte scale.
Java Developer in Data Engineering
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020Manchester
Equal Experts · via ExaDev
2019 - 2024Associate
Nov 2019 - Feb 2024Manchester
ExaDev is an associate provider of Equal Experts, a network of experienced software consultants specialising in agile delivery.
Sky · via ExaDev
2019Senior Java Developer
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019Leeds
Working on Identity, managing authentication and authorisation for all Sky products, handling millions of concurrent connections. Built for NBCU's Peacock streaming platform.
Infinity Business Advancement Systems
2015 - 2019Technical Lead
Oct 2015 - Mar 2019Cardiff
Technical lead of a 4-person Java development team. MASONIX Android application and infrastructure. HATEOAS Spring MVC / Spring Boot back-ends with Hibernate and PostgreSQL. Angular 2 with TypeScript front-ends. Deployments orchestrated on Kubernetes.
Sourcepulp Ltd.
2013 - 2015Co-founder, CTO
Jul 2013 - Sep 2015Bangor
Precursor to ExaDev. Robotics control systems for medical lab equipment, patient record systems, cloud photogrammetry, and medical biometric data platforms.
Bangor University
2011 - 2015Senior Demonstrator
2011 - Sep 2015Bangor
Computer science lecturing and lab demonstration. Taught LaTeX, Java, C#, System Administration, Advanced Java, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
2014Senior Developer
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014Bangor
Lead development of a proof-of-concept smart ward system.
BEE Robotics
2013 - 2014Lab Robotics Software Developer
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014Caernarfon
Developed control software for the RoboBlot / RoboScreen strip-based assay processing robots. Touchscreen C# WPF application interfacing with hardware components.
Education
Bangor University
2011 - 2018Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
Part-time, concurrent with founding ExaDev
Bangor University
2008 - 2011BSc (Hons), Computer Science
Publications
PCA feature extraction for change detection in multidimensional unlabeled data
2013LI Kuncheva, WJ Faithfull
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 25 (1), 69-80
Cited by 274
Combining Univariate Approaches for Ensemble Change Detection in Multivariate Data
2019WJ Faithfull, JJ Rodríguez, LI Kuncheva
Information Fusion
Cited by 47
PCA feature extraction for change detection in multidimensional unlabelled streaming data
2012LI Kuncheva, WJ Faithfull
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Cited by 19
SitaVis: Interactive situation awareness visualization of large datasets
2012FCB Williams, WJ Faithfull, JC Roberts
2012 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
Cited by 7
On optimum thresholding of multivariate change detectors
2014WJ Faithfull, LI Kuncheva
Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition
Cited by 4
Unsupervised Change Detection in Multivariate Streaming Data
2018WJ Faithfull
Bangor University (PhD Thesis)
Cited by 3
A Middleware to Link Lego Mindstorms Robots with 4th Generation Language Software NetLogo
2018SK Aslam, WJ Faithfull, WJ Teahan
Artificial Intelligence XXXV: 38th SGAI International Conference
Cited by 1
Awards
BCS Prize
IEEE VAST Challenge Honourable Mention
Bangor University Entrepreneurial Award
Bangor University Impact and Innovation Award
Lancashire Cyber Foundry Skills and Talent Award