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 Developer operating in the Developer Tools 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.
Steve Sanderson
Software Developer of Microsoft
Steve is working as a developer for Microsoft in the team that brings you the ASP.NET technology stack, IIS, and other web things. Previously he developed .NET software as a contractor/consultant for clients in Bristol and beyond, plus wrote some books for Apress, such as Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. From time to time, he speaks at user groups and conferences, and recently have been running a bunch of training courses on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and of course ASP.NET MVC.
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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.
Amy Nicholson
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Tiberiu Covaci
Azure Developer Audience Lead of Microsoft
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Asim Hussain
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Asim is a developer, trainer, author and speaker with over 16 years experience working for organisations such as the European Space Agency, Google and now Microsoft, where he is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
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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.
Tania Allard
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Tania Allard (she/her) is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft and a research engineer with vast experience in academic research and industrial environments. Her main areas of expertise are within data-intensive applications, scientific computing, and machine learning; one of her main areas is the improvement of processes, reproducibility, and transparency in research, data science, and artificial intelligence. Over the last few years, she’s trained hundreds of people on scientific computing, reproducible workflows, and ML models testing, monitoring, and scaling and delivered talks on the topic worldwide. She’s passionate about mentoring, open source and its community, and she’s involved in a number of initiatives aimed to build more diverse and inclusive communities. She’s also a contributor, maintainer, and developer of a number of open source projects and the Founder of Pyladies NorthWest UK.
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Amy Boyd
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI of Microsoft
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Amy Boyd
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI of Microsoft
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Matthew Ellis
Developer Advocate of JetBrains
Matt Ellis is a developer advocate at JetBrains.
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About JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Mark Jerome
Co-founder & Head Developer of Imburse
Co-founder and Head Developer at IMburse.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Benjamin Hodgson
Developer of Stack Overflow
Benjamin is a developer and cardigan owner at Stack Overflow, the team behind websites such as Stack Overflow. He previously worked at Huddle. He’s interested in functional programming, type systems, mathematical models, language design, and using tools in “creative” ways.
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About Stack Overflow: Empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
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.
