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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Open Source space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Ben Stopford
Lead Technologist, Office of the CTO of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Ilkka Turunen
Field CTO of Sonatype
Ilkka Turunen is the Field CTO at Sonatype, working at Sonatype in europe. His background is in software and systems engineering, acting as an architect for several commercial projects. He’s helped define everything from the software design to webscale infrastructure architectures and regularly works with companies across the world to understand and improve their software supply chain and continuous delivery pipelines.
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About Sonatype, Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Radouane Oudrhiri
Chief Technology Officer of Eagle Genomics
Radouane has an extensive experience in leading world-class software and data-intensive system developments in different industries from Telecom to Healthcare, Nuclear, Automotive, Financials. Radouane is Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt with speciality in high-tech, IT and Software engineering and he is recognised as the leader and early adaptor of Lean/Six Sigma and DFSS to IT and Software. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and member of the ISO Technical Committee (TC69: Applications of Statistical methods) where he is co-author of the Lean & Six Sigma Standard (ISO 18404) as well as the new standard under development (Design for Six Sigma). He is also part of the newly formed international Group on Big Data (nominated by BSI as the UK representative/expert). Radouane has also been Chair of the working group on Measurement Systems for Automated Processes/Systems within the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering).
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Clive Cox
CTO of Seldon
Former Rocket Scientist, Clive is the CTO at Seldon and the brains behind the engine and co-author on numerous research papers. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and studied Speech & Language Processing at Cambridge University. Clive has spent the last few years developing Seldon’s algorithms and predictive platform.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Neil Stevenson
CTO Hazelcast Platform of Hazelcast
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About Hazelcast: Hazelcast is a real-time, intelligent application platform that enables enterprises to capture value otherwise missed.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
David Amanshia
CTO of Pharaoh Tools
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About Pharaoh Tools: Open source, PHP, full-stack DevOps tools
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
