You can call me Billy
I am a hardware engineer and serial tinkerer with years of experience all over the product development cycle and countless technological contexts. My fascination with designing and implementing physical artefacts has always run deep, taking me all over the world in the process - take a look around and see for yourself.
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Last updated: April 2025
⏰ Career break - present
I have used this special transitional moment to knuckle down on all kinds of projects
and long-neglected ideas, shore up my circle of people, investigate new technical domains, and generally prime myself
for going all-in on the next opportunity, which I want to be a major commitment.
🇬🇧 → 🇺🇸 Big move #3, back to San Francisco - Winter 2025
Missing the City by the Bay rather sorely, me and and my American partner decided that
is where we would rather settle, now possible with green-card in hand 🍾
🦠 Mechanical Engineer @Mytos Bio - 2024
I worked to scale-up and complete all kinds of DVT work on their new generation automated,
vertically-integrated human cell manufacturing hardware platform. Based in London but born in YC,
this was still Bay Area in spirit.
⬆️ Moving on up and out (of IDE) - returning to impactful work - Winter 2023
A lot of factors added up to make IDE not the platform for development I had wanted it to be,
so I took the leap back to seriously building and shipping with Mytos.
🇺🇸 → 🇬🇧 Big move #2, starting IDE (Innovation Design Engineering) @Imperial College/RCA - Fall 2023
Keen to establish and refine a robust engineering creative process for myself, I moved back to London
for this internationally #1 ranked design MS/MA programme.
🧽 Mechanical Design Engineer at @Matic Robots - 2021-2023
I developed the cleaning head system for their autonomous home cleaning robot from a crude prototype
to production design. A deeply technical but still broad role that involved owning >100 unique parts
within a dense mechatronic assembly.
🏎️ Mechanical Engineer @Lucid Motors - 2020-2021
I worked principally on the motorsports special projects team, driving the mechanical design of the
Formula-e Gen3 front regen motor inverter, but also owned a suite of production inverter parts and
projects. This is when I moved to the Bay Area.
🎓 Graduation from Georgia Tech: BS, Mechanical Engineering - Spring 2020
I graduated with a 3.94 and a concentration in Automation and Robotic Systems. I was also recognised
with the Whitehead Memorial prize, the school's top award for development and service.
🤖 Undergraduate robotics design research @LIDAR Lab, Georgia tech - Summer 2019
I worked to design and prototype miniature actuator assemblies and MCU control infrastructure
for a humanoid robot platform designed for teaching and trialling control systems.
🚛 Service Engineering (III) internship @Cummins - Summer 2018
I interned with the top-level technical specialists in the field service engineering division of
Cummins Heavy Engines in Columbus, IN. The work was modeling and performance analytics oriented.
🇨🇳 China Summer Program - 2017
I spent a summer exchange-studying and travelling over eastern China. Here, I really fell in love with
mechatronics and came back from Shenzhen with years worth of supplies!
🛞 The GT Off-Road years - 2016-2020
I was all-in on the BAJA SAE racing team, where we'd design, build, and compete an off-road racing car
from scratch every year. It was a hugely formative and memorable period. The year I was Chief Engineer,
we up-ranked from 77th to 7th place at national competition!
🇬🇧 → 🇺🇸 Big move #1, starting at Georgia Tech - 2016
🎉 Stamps President's Scholarship for Georgia Tech - 2016
I was extremely privileged to be awarded Tech's flagship full-ride merit based scholarship to study
Mechanical Engineering, with a sub-0.25% acceptance rate and as the 3rd ever international student recipient.
🇺🇸 Sutton Trust US Programme recipient, '16 cohort
I was awarded a place on the coveted Fulbright-spinoff to receive close mentorship, as a
state-schooled, lower-income student, to apply to US universities. My first visit to US
soil was for their taster summer school at MIT in 2015.
🎉 Arkwright Engineering scholarship - 2014
I was the first in my school's history to be awarded this prestigious national
mentorship/sponsorship scholarship for up-and-coming engineers.
🏫 High school and sixth-form - 2009-2016
By 14, I was pretty set on mechanical engineering, so I configured my subject studies towards
this as early as possible, taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and Chemistry
🧱 The Lego years
Lego was the figurative and literal background to my entire childhood,
I was completely obsessed. I'd seek sets for their brick composition and count,
building them once as a formality before absorbing them into my inventory for original builds,
which were mostly mechanistic not aesthetic.