Hessian

Tom Watson

Tom, co-founder and CTO of Hessian – leads technical direction and engineering of the platform which Hessian runs on. Previously at GoCardless, he was part of a team which migrated the core payments database to a more scalable provider live with zero downtime, on a system processing over £1B on peak days. Prior, spent 2 years at CMC Markets building a 0-to-1 retail trading app for US investors. BSc in CS from Durham University, where his team won the IBM prize for shipping a production CMS.

Bao Nguyen

Leads GTM, fundraising, customer relationships, and ML strategy. Previously co-founded Zettafleet (decentralized LLM training platform) and was a SWE at Bloomberg building ML pipelines. MPhil from University of Cambridge and BSc from Durham University in CS; publications in ML systems including research with Google DeepMind.

James Smith

Leads forward-deployed engagements: customer relationships, system design, and shipping AI pipelines to production. Previously five years at Bloomberg building a data platform processing billions of observations, then DRW building data infrastructure for commodities trading desks. CS at Durham University (top of year); awarded three scholarships from the University of Cambridge.