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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 Open Source 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.
Ahmet Taha Sakar
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Ahmet Taha Sakar is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, information technology executive, and full stack developer with over 15 years of experience. He has served as the founding member of several startups. Since 2005, he has worked primarily with e-commerce, software as a service, and mobile products. He is endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology by Tech City UK.
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Danilo Sato
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Danilo is a Head of Data & AI Services UK and polyglot Principal Consultant with more than 15 years of experience as an Architect, Data Engineer, Developer, and Agile Coach. He balances strategy with execution, helping clients refine their technology strategy while also adopting practices to reduce the time between having an idea, implementing it, and running it in production using Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Danilo is the author of the book “DevOps In Practice: reliable and automated software delivery”, a member of ThoughtWorks’ Office of the CTO, and an experienced international conference speaker.
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Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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Andrew Harmel-Law
Technical Principal of Thoughtworks
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Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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Ben Evans
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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Peter Robinson
Principal IoT Architect of Red Hat
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James Allen
Principal Solutions Architect of Red Hat
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James Read
Principal Solution Architect, EMEA Alliances of Red Hat
A technically orientated IT professional, with a focus on Technical Partner Management in the Cloud and Service Provider space, especially with Azure. James has been at Red Hat for 8 years.
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Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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