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 Principal operating in the Infrastructure 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.
Nic Jackson
Principal Developer Advocate of HashiCorp
Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo, teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique
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About HashiCorp: HashiCorp is a remote-first company that solves development, security, and operations challenges in infrastructure.
TP Honey
Principal Engineer of Puppet
TP has worked at Puppet for four years developing their supported modules. This includes working with the Puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat … and also on device-based modules like the Cisco / Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM, a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
James Sykes
Principal Consultant of SNC Lavalin
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About SNC Lavalin: SNC-Lavalin is an engineering and construction group.
Stuart Paterson
Principal Software Development Engineer of Chef Software
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Ray Harris
MEIF Principal of Foresight Group
Ray joined Foresight in April 2018 as Principal of MEIF (Midlands Engine Investment Fund). Ray works between the Nottingham, Leicester and Milton Keynes offices and is responsible for all MEIF investments. Prior to joining Foresight, Ray worked at Odyssey Corporate Finance, as a Director focussing on Corporate Finance deals (MBO, Company sales, Refinances, Investments etc) in the £1-75m range. Previously, Ray has been involved in, and latterly ran, two other regional venture capital funds at Catapult Venture Managers. Ray has over 20 years of both Corporate Finance and Private Equity experience and holds a first class degree in Economics & Statistics from UEA (University of East Anglia).
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Corey Burke
Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect of Rackspace
Corey Burke is a Principal Architect with Rackspace Hosting, a Managed Cloud Hosting provider located in Hayes, London in the UK. He is a contributing author for the Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration book, and a Technical Editor for Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions. Corey has presented at various SharePoint Saturday events as well as User Group Meetings and Microsoft TechEd Europe. He is a huge fan of SharePoint and using PowerShell for automation.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Katarina Wagnerova
Principal Technologist (OCTO) of Creative ITC
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About Advecti, Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Swen-Helge Huber
Director, Principal Architect IoT of Solace
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About Solace: Solace’s event broker technology helps enterprises become real-time by making business operations and customer interactions event-driven.
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Matthew Weingarth
Principal Innovations Engineer at Network Rail, Signalling Innovations Group of Network Rail
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About Network Rail: Network Rail develops Britain’s rail tracks, signaling, bridges, tunnels, level crossings, and so on.
