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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 Developer operating in the Web Development 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.
Javier Ramirez
Senior Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
Javier Ramirez is a software engineer with a large experience in cloud, big data, machine learning, and web applications development. He worked as a programmer, post-sales, engineer, software architect and project manager for banks, telcos, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and publishing houses before deciding to start his own business. He is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. He was a co-founder in teowaki.com, aprendoaprogramar.com, and utende.com, a CTO/Partner in ASPgems.com, and head of engineering at Datatonic. He was a Google Developer Expert on the Google Cloud Platform for several years (he retired from the program when joining AWS). He has lectured at several Spanish Universities. He was a lecturer at three different Universities on the topics of Software Engineering, JAVA and Web Development. He is the author of the book “Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development” Based in London, he is an active member of the software development community, attending and often speaking at conferences all over Europe. He also helped organize a number of conferences and local groups on the subjects of Ruby on Rails, Web Development and APIs.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Martin Beeby
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ruth Stryker
Senior Courseware Developer and Technical Instructor of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Dave Seaton
Senior Web Developer of Hallam
Having been involved in web development since his teens, Dave studied computer science at Nottingham Trent University and went on to pursue programming as a hobby during a seven year career in the technical support sector. Dave was well placed to join the BigSpring team as a back end web developer in 2013, and continues his role as Senior Developer at Hallam after the 2017 merger. He specialises in WordPress plugin development, API integrations and a hefty dose of Javascript as well as developing and maintaining internal tooling. Dave is a music enthusiast, enjoys playing board games and spends far too much time on the internet.
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Damion Yeatman
Web Developer of Audentio
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About Audentio: A Digital Agency for the Modern Era
Martin Dimmock
Owner, Chief Developer of HarryAdney Internet Services
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About HarryAdney Internet Services: HarryAdney Internet Services offers a comprehensive set of internet services to help businesses stand out.
Nina Breznik
Partner & Open Source Developer of Playproject
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About Playproject, Wizard Amigos: Playproject creates and develops IT infrastructure to upgrade websites.
Gary Jones
Web Developer of Gamajo
Gary Jones is a UK-based WordPress Engineer, code consultant, and proud father of twins. Driven by a passion for excellence, he creates elegant WordPress plugins and theme solutions for clients, and provides services, including code audits, for other designers and developers. He’s worked on projects for SiteGround, Yoast, StudioPress, Web Savvy Marketing, Daniels Trading, Rolls-Royce and many smaller design and development agencies and individuals. Gary is a key contributor to the Genesis Framework and has contributed to all except one major branch of WordPress Core since 3.3. He has contributed to many open source projects in the community, and is a co-host on the UK Genesis podcast. A former teacher in schools and prisons, Gary’s goal is to educate WordPress professionals on how they can improve their code. His motto is “knowledge is power”.
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About Gamajo: Gamajo is a small web agency providing technical WordPress services to businesses, agencies and individuals.
Richard Peck
Software Developer of Frontline Utilities LTD
Worked extensively on promoting software products online, then switched to active dev role in 2009. Currently shipped 5 production applications including native and web.
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About Frontline Utilities LTD, PCFixes.com, Start Gaining Momentum: Software Development & Visual Design
Keiran Edwards
Web Developer of Imperium Media
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About Imperium Media: Helping companies to maximize their potential on new and existing technologies.
George Beresford
Front-end Developer, UX/UI Designer of Fruitbowl Media
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About Fruitbowl Media: Fruitbowl Media is a company that designs websites dedicated to engaging users.
Tony Heyden
Senior Developer of Fruitbowl Media
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About Fruitbowl Media: Fruitbowl Media is a company that designs websites dedicated to engaging users.
Tony Heyden
Senior Developer of Fruitbowl Media
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About Fruitbowl Media: Fruitbowl Media is a company that designs websites dedicated to engaging users.
George Beresford
Front-end Developer, UX/UI Designer of Fruitbowl Media
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About Fruitbowl Media: Fruitbowl Media is a company that designs websites dedicated to engaging users.
Angel Ioannou
Software Developer of B3website
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About B3website: B3Website has been providing reliable Internet hosting infrastructure solutions as well domain registration and website development.
Richard Edwards
Director / Web Developer of Pixel Hero
Director / Web Developer at Pixel Hero.
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About Pixel Hero: Using expertise in Conversion Rate Optimisation and E-Commerce, Pixel Hero are a Web Design and Optimisation agency based in Bristol.
