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 Enterprise Software 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.
Steve Sanderson
Software Developer of Microsoft
Steve is working as a developer for Microsoft in the team that brings you the ASP.NET technology stack, IIS, and other web things. Previously he developed .NET software as a contractor/consultant for clients in Bristol and beyond, plus wrote some books for Apress, such as Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. From time to time, he speaks at user groups and conferences, and recently have been running a bunch of training courses on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and of course ASP.NET MVC.
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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.
Amy Nicholson
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Tiberiu Covaci
Azure Developer Audience Lead 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.
Asim Hussain
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Asim is a developer, trainer, author and speaker with over 16 years experience working for organisations such as the European Space Agency, Google and now Microsoft, where he is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
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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.
Tania Allard
Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
Tania Allard (she/her) is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft and a research engineer with vast experience in academic research and industrial environments. Her main areas of expertise are within data-intensive applications, scientific computing, and machine learning; one of her main areas is the improvement of processes, reproducibility, and transparency in research, data science, and artificial intelligence. Over the last few years, she’s trained hundreds of people on scientific computing, reproducible workflows, and ML models testing, monitoring, and scaling and delivered talks on the topic worldwide. She’s passionate about mentoring, open source and its community, and she’s involved in a number of initiatives aimed to build more diverse and inclusive communities. She’s also a contributor, maintainer, and developer of a number of open source projects and the Founder of Pyladies NorthWest UK.
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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.
Amy Boyd
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI 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.
Amy Boyd
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Scalable Content & AI 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.
Chris Saxon
Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL of Oracle
Chris Saxon is one of Oracle’s Developer Advocates. He and Connor McDonald form the answer team on Ask Tom, the online repository of questions and answers about building applications on top of Oracle Database. He’s here to help you get the best out of Oracle Database. So if you’re stuck on some tricky SQL problem, let him know and he’ll do what he can to assist!
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Davide Rizzo
Backend Developer of SmartRecruiters
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About SmartRecruiters, YoCrowd: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Mike Elsmore
Developer Advocate of Logz.io
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About Logz.io: Logz.io provides a scalable and intelligent machine data analytics platform built on ELK and Grafana for monitoring modern applications.
Matthew Ellis
Developer Advocate of JetBrains
Matt Ellis is a developer advocate at JetBrains.
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About JetBrains: JetBrains is a software vendor specializing in the creation of productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams.
Richard Cox
Senior Software Developer of SUSE
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About SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
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.
Steve Poole
Developer Advocate of Red Hat
Steve Poole is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat as well as a DevOps practitioner (leading a large team of engineers on cutting edge DevOps exploitation) and a long-time IBM Java developer, leader, and evangelist.
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About IBM, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Steve Poole
Developer Advocate of Red Hat
Steve Poole is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat as well as a DevOps practitioner (leading a large team of engineers on cutting edge DevOps exploitation) and a long-time IBM Java developer, leader, and evangelist.
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About IBM, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
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.
Mark Jerome
Co-founder & Head Developer of Imburse
Co-founder and Head Developer at IMburse.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Benjamin Hodgson
Developer of Stack Overflow
Benjamin is a developer and cardigan owner at Stack Overflow, the team behind websites such as Stack Overflow. He previously worked at Huddle. He’s interested in functional programming, type systems, mathematical models, language design, and using tools in “creative” ways.
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About Stack Overflow: Empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
Victor Popescu
Lead Developer of onkho
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About onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Manchin Wong
Developer of Hudman Solutions
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About Hudman Solutions: Hudman Solutions is an award winning SaaS ERP software solution, cost-effective for small businesses.
Michael Stewart
Senior Developer of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Sotirios Mitsis
Senior Developer of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
