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 CTO’ operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Richard Potter
CTO of Microsoft
Richard Potter advises business leaders around the world on a range of digital transformation challenges. However, it’s the building of innovative enterprises that is his real passion. In his day job Richard works with Microsoft’s customers giving them clarity and confidence about their digital journeys, helping them turn their aspirations into transformational business results. He is a renowned keynote speaker and event facilitator with an energising and engaging style. He lives in the UK but travels extensively, shamelessly collecting and telling stories everywhere he goes.
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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.
Tarek Elabbady
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft
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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.
Stephen Barr
Central Government CTO of Microsoft
Steve Barr has 30 years experience in business and IT enterprise environments, within both the public and private sector. He has a diverse background covering a broad range of roles including business strategy and enterprise architecture, business management, programme delivery, leading large teams and consultancy. He has extensive experience in initiating and defining innovative solutions based on business needs and delivering enterprise-wide strategic solutions in large accounts. As a strategic leader within Microsoft, Steve has worked with CxOs across Government and the private sector, driving innovation around new technologies such as AI, Blockchain, cloud and mobile, whilst also covering security concerns. He is a member of the Government’s All Party Parliamentary Groups for AI and Blockchain and is often a speaker on innovation, technology driven business outcomes, Cybersecurity and how organisation can transform to the new ‘cloud world’.
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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.
Mark Cheverton
CTO of Redgate Software
After two decades in the business, the Internet continues to fascinate me with its potential for disruptive innovation. I thrive on the challenge of launching new products and companies, putting my own startup experience and broad range of skills to good use. I’m always looking for new challenges and to work with people with big ideas who believe they can change the world. Specialties: Internet technologies; mobile; online gaming; cloud computing; enterprise architecture; scalability; government; SaaS; PaaS; innovation; start-ups; Internet of Things
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Ilkka Turunen
Field CTO of Sonatype
Ilkka Turunen is the Field CTO at Sonatype, working at Sonatype in europe. His background is in software and systems engineering, acting as an architect for several commercial projects. He’s helped define everything from the software design to webscale infrastructure architectures and regularly works with companies across the world to understand and improve their software supply chain and continuous delivery pipelines.
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About Sonatype, Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
Philip Clifton
CTO of Wonde
CTO & Co-Founder at Wonde.
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About Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Rashid Mansoor
CTO & Co-founder of Hadean
Engineer & complex systems scientist with entrepreneurial expertise building and scaling deep-tech startups. Rashid Mansoor is the Founder and CEO of MetaGravity.
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About Hadean, MetaGravity: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Simon Hamilton
CTO of Rotor
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About Rotor: Make high quality music videos in minutes
Joao Caxaria
Co-Founder and CTO of Codacy
Over 15 years of experience in Software development. Specialities: Scala, Java, .NET, Objective-C
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Matthieu Louis
CTO of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Isambard Poulson
CTO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Andy Jeffries
CTO and Co-founder of Civo
Andy Jeffries is an Advisory Board Member at DevNetwork. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of CIvo.
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About Civo: Cloud hosting specialists running the the world’s first Kubernetes service powered by Rancher Lab’s K3s.
David Amanshia
CTO of Pharaoh Tools
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About Pharaoh Tools: Open source, PHP, full-stack DevOps tools
Shane Morgan
CTO / Director of Developing Experts
Shane has extensive experience as a web and application developer and is the Founding Director of CD2, a web and software company specialising in bespoke platform builds.
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About Developing Experts: Bridging the gap between education and industry through our online curriculum.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Peter Schrammel
Co-founder & CTO of Diffblue
Peter is CTO and co-founder of Diffblue. He has significant experience as a software project lead in the embedded systems industry and a strong track record in program analysis. Prior to Diffblue he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sussex.
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About Diffblue: An Oxford spin-out using AI to write code, starting with Java unit test suites that catch errors earlier and faster in a DevOps pipeline.
Jakub Pietrzak
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of SKY ENGINE
Jakub Pietrzak is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
