Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Developer operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Developer 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.
Chris Saxon
Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL of Oracle
Chris Saxon is one of Oracle’s Developer Advocates. He and Connor McDonald form the answer team on Ask Tom, the online repository of questions and answers about building applications on top of Oracle Database. He’s here to help you get the best out of Oracle Database. So if you’re stuck on some tricky SQL problem, let him know and he’ll do what he can to assist!
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Javier Ramirez
Senior Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
Javier Ramirez is a software engineer with a large experience in cloud, big data, machine learning, and web applications development. He worked as a programmer, post-sales, engineer, software architect and project manager for banks, telcos, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and publishing houses before deciding to start his own business. He is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. He was a co-founder in teowaki.com, aprendoaprogramar.com, and utende.com, a CTO/Partner in ASPgems.com, and head of engineering at Datatonic. He was a Google Developer Expert on the Google Cloud Platform for several years (he retired from the program when joining AWS). He has lectured at several Spanish Universities. He was a lecturer at three different Universities on the topics of Software Engineering, JAVA and Web Development. He is the author of the book “Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development” Based in London, he is an active member of the software development community, attending and often speaking at conferences all over Europe. He also helped organize a number of conferences and local groups on the subjects of Ruby on Rails, Web Development and APIs.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Oliver Hopton
Co Founder & Developer of FunFair Technologies
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About EveryFan, FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Ali Mahmood
Mobile and Web Applications Developer of Silicon Markets
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About Silicon Markets: Silicon Markets offers Forex and CFD tradings service to their clients.
Alexandros Roditis
Co-Founder, Software Developer of Weaver Labs
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About Weaver Labs: Decentralised communications
Adam Walker
Software Developer of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Adam Walker
Software Developer of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Christophe Langlois
Global Marketing Lead, Fintech & Developer Ecosystem, FusionFabric.cloud of Finastra
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About Finastra, Visible Banking: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
Jared Burgess
Co-founder, Designer & Software Developer of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Dave Ranyard
Virtual Reality Developer & CEO of Dream Reality Interactive
Dave is director of Sony’s London Studio, famous for their pioneering work in Virtual Reality. Recent demos include The Deep, VR Luge and critically acclaimed The London Heist. Probably the most talked about VR experience to date. All the demos have been developed from the ground up for PlayStation VR and exhibited around the world at key games industry events such as E3, GDC and Gamescom.
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About Dream Reality Interactive: Dream Reality Interactive is a developer of VR experience studio.
Frederik Wagner
Co-Founder & Developer of Drafthound
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About Drafthound: Drafthound is an online platform for fantasy football gaming activities.
Sam Mbale
Professional Cloud Developer of Mpelembe Network
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About Arbirage Sdn Bhd, Mpelembe Network: Professional Cloud Services
Abu Bokor
Front-end Developer of SkipsoLabs
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About SkipsoLabs: Enterprise SaaS applications for contests, open innovation, crowdsourcing and cluster innovation.
Abu Bokor
Front-end Developer of SkipsoLabs
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About SkipsoLabs: Enterprise SaaS applications for contests, open innovation, crowdsourcing and cluster innovation.
Sarah Sigfrinius
FileMaker Developer of Linear Blue
Sarah is a FileMaker Developer for Linear Blue, based in the United Kingdom. She works hard as an advocate for young people in tech and is an active member in the Women of FileMaker (WOF) group. Starting her development career out of pure curiosity, over four years she achieved four FileMaker certifications which have completely transformed her professional career. When Sarah is not speaking in her session you will see her often around the WOF booth. Stop by and say hello!
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About Linear Blue: Cross-platform consulting company, specializing in custom software development of desktop, web applications and iOS tablet solutions.
