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This list showcases the top Cambridge based Principal operating in the Software space. If you think a Principal is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Edward Thomson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about using Git, and the co-host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Simon Peyton Jones
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ely Kahn
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
Ely Kahn was the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development for Sqrrl. Previously, Ely served in a variety of positions in the Federal Government, including Director of Cybersecurity at the National Security Staff in White House, Deputy Chief of Staff at the National Protection Programs Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of Risk Management and Strategic Innovation in the Transportation Security Administration. Before his service in the Federal Government, Ely was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Ely has a BA from Harvard University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ely currently serves as the Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
David Woodhouse
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Adam Fuchs
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
CTO at Sqrrl
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About Amazon Web Services, Sqrrl: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Sam Fineberg
Principal Architect of Akamai Technologies
Dr. Fineberg is an experienced executive and strategist, directing M&A, research, advanced development, and product strategy. As a Distinguished Technologist in Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $5B+ storage division, he defined the business’ cloud and big data storage technical strategy. Previously, Sam was Chief Technologist for HPE’s $200M Information Management software business. This group included leading products in email archiving, records management, and data protection. Sam is active in the storage industry, and regularly speaks at industry events on topics including cloud storage, digital preservation and big data storage. Sam has led M&A, technology integration, product development, and architecture transformation. Sam regularly directs complex matrix-managed cross-company initiatives, as well as collaboration with customers, partner companies, and universities.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Philip Tellis
Author of boomerang.js, Principal Architect & RUM Distiller of Akamai Technologies
Philip Tellis is the Author of boomerang.js, Principal Architect and RUM Distiller at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Don Syme
Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist, an F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language. Earlier, Don created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author on the book Expert F#.
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About Microsoft, Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Danielle Belgrave
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft Research
Danielle Belgrave is a Machine Learning Researcher in the Healthcare AI Division at Microsoft Research Cambridge. She also has a (tenured) Research Fellowship at Imperial College London and received a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in Biostatistics (2015 – 2018). Her research focuses on integrating expert scientific knowledge to develop statistical machine learning models to understand disease progression over time, with the goal of identifying personalized disease management strategies. She has experience of applied machine learning for personalized health both within the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Marc Brockschmidt
Senior Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Marc Brockschmidt is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Programming Principles and Tools group in Cambridge. Brockschmidt’s research focuses on topics around software developer productivity. This includes fully automatic analyses of implicitly specified properties (such as memory safety, termination or complexity) and the use of machine learning techniques to help where classical program analysis fails. Most recently, Brockschmidt also returned to some of his F/OSS roots and started studying the efficient use of build systems with colleagues in MSR and TSE. Brockschmidt obtained his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Jürgen Giesl, where he worked on termination and complexity analysis of (Java) programs. There, Brockschmidt focused on heap abstractions in the analysis of object-oriented programs.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Shumin Tian
Principal Software Engineer of Spectral Edge
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About Spectral Edge: Spectral Edge combines patented Image Fusion tech with Deep Learning to reveal more of the color, detail and clarity in any image.
