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 Machine Learning 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.
Petra Selmer
Developer of Neo4j
Petra Selmer is a member of our engineering team. For her doctoral program, she is working on a language that allows for slight imprecisions, so users can explore complex domains without having to get everything exactly right in their queries. For many years, she worked as a consultant and developer in a variety of different settings and roles. Petra is South African and is working in Neo’s London office.
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Adam Cowley
Developer Experience Engineer of Neo4j
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Mark Needham
Developer of Neo4j
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Zan Markan
Developer Advocate of DataRobot
Zan is a Developer Advocate with over 10 years of experience in software development. He spends the days educating developers across the world about the wonders of AI, and nights talking about airplanes, computers things, and craft beer. Before DevRel he used to dabble in mobile and SDK development, especially on Android. Before Pusher he was Mobile Lead at Marks & Spencer and before that he co-founded Equaleyes a startup company building a smartphone for the blind and visually impaired. Currently he fancies Kotlin, Node, TypeScript, and the UX of APIs in general. Other hobbies include speaking at conferences and yelling at computers.
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About DataRobot: DataRobot brings AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises.
Alex Barton
Developer Partnerships of Facebook AI
Alex Barton is the Developer Partnerships of Facebook.
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About Facebook AI, Mush: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
Theodor Istrate
Full Stack Web Developer of Sensat
Theodor Istrate is currently SenSat’s Full Stack Web Developer. He graduated with Engineering Science in 2015 from Oxford University. He specialized in control systems, machine learning, and computer vision.
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About Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Richard Silk
Software Developer of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
David Gray
Senior Software Developer in test of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Andy Lowe
Applications Developer of Optalysys
Andy has worked on high-end Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for over 17 years and has an in-depth understanding of CFD within academia and industry. Andy is co-inventor on one of Optalysys’s patents. He applies an ontological knowledge based systems approach to CAE and CFD using open source object orientated code.
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About Optalysys: Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing.
Dominic Martino
Senior User Experience And Clientside Developer at Centiment of centiment.io
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About centiment.io: Centiment Adtech uses artificial intelligence to find out how your audience FEEL and the BEST time to serve an ad.
Sean Burton
Lead Developer of emotuit
Lead Developer at emotuit
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About emotuit: Engagement Analytics in eLearning. Helping teachers understand where their students and content aren’t engaged/ing
Tobias Johansson
Lead Developer of Valo
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About Valo: Valo is an all-in-one platform that combines a real-time computation engine and machine learning with big data storage.
