# Will Gardner

> Software Engineer at Cogna

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/willgardner

Software Engineer.

My super power is quickly learning large, complex software systems to a deep level.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cogna
Jan 2024 – Present | Greater London, England, United Kingdom

### Principal Software Engineer @ Five AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Lead engineering migrations to Azure and Github
- Set architectural approaches for individual team migrations
- Outlined implementation approach for new services
- Lead architectural investigation and direction for cloud integration with the Automated Driving Alliance
- Set Architectural roadmap for future initiatives

### Lead Software Engineer @ Five AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Lead engineering initiatives for architectural evolution
- Introduced and lead "Architecture Guild" within organisation to facilitate discussions across teams
- Helped define and provide initial implementations for software integration following Bosch acquisition
- Resident expert for Bosch's enterprise IT systems

### Senior Software Engineer @ Five AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Cloud micro-services
- Simulation integration with third party vehicle software stacks
- Web services gateway management
- Operations and incident response
- Aspirational SRE

### Software Engineer @ Five AI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Safety critical, real-time C++
- Synthetic trajectory generation for vehicle controller testing
- Robotics Middleware development
- Vehicle OS Configuration and Management
- On-car deployment of vehicle software and release management
- Orchestration of vehicle software under simulation in cloud environments
- Code reviews and architectural development
- Vehicle software release manager

### Software Engineering Consultant @ Self-Employed
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Specialising in high-performance, soft real-time software development

github.com/chippiewill

### Industrial Placement Engineer @ Couchbase Ltd
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Manchester, United Kingdom
1 year industrial placement with Couchbase.

6 months spent in the Technical Support team working with a large variety of household name customers. Additionally helped develop debugging tools used by all technical support engineers and lead the development of a new web portal automatically executing debugging tools and producing reports that improved efficiency of the other engineers.

6 months spent as a junior C++ developer in the KV engine team improving testing of low-level filesystem layer, authoring an ultra low overhead C++ tracing library, and performing code reviews with the rest of the team.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering (With a year in industry)
University of York


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chippiewill
- Website: https://github.com/chippiewill
- Website: https://willgardner.uk

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Last updated: 2026-04-05