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 Information Technology 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.
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.
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.
David McKay
Senior Developer Advocate of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
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.
Oliver Hopton
Co Founder & Developer of FunFair Technologies
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About EveryFan, FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Leander Hambley
Co-Founder & Lead Developer of Stakester
Leander Hambley is the Co-Founder and Lead Developer at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
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.
James Blackwell
Senior Software Developer of NEC Corporation
James’ role involves both development work and managing the technical team. He ensures the smooth running of every project.
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About NEC Corporation: NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
Ali Mahmood
Mobile and Web Applications Developer of Silicon Markets
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About Silicon Markets: Silicon Markets offers Forex and CFD tradings service to their clients.
Alexandros Roditis
Co-Founder, Software Developer of Weaver Labs
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About Weaver Labs: Decentralised communications
Adam Walker
Software Developer of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Adam Walker
Software Developer of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Christophe Langlois
Global Marketing Lead, Fintech & Developer Ecosystem, FusionFabric.cloud of Finastra
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About Finastra, Visible Banking: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
Jared Burgess
Co-founder, Designer & Software Developer of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Richard Silk
Software Developer of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
David Gray
Senior Software Developer in test of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Jacques-Yves Silvia
Senior Software Developer of Leidos holdings
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About Leidos holdings: Leidos holdings is a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Gary Hill
Senior Developer of ActiveNav
Gary is Head of Development and has been at the center of ActiveNav since its inception. Gary brings the intellect, expertise and technological insight that drive all aspects of our software solutions. Gary holds a PhD from Southampton University, UK
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About ActiveNav: ActiveNav is the data privacy and governance software provider and innovator of DMaaS (Data Mapping as a Service.)
Gary Hill
Senior Developer of ActiveNav
Gary is Head of Development and has been at the center of ActiveNav since its inception. Gary brings the intellect, expertise and technological insight that drive all aspects of our software solutions. Gary holds a PhD from Southampton University, UK
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About ActiveNav: ActiveNav is the data privacy and governance software provider and innovator of DMaaS (Data Mapping as a Service.)
Anton Deblasio
Senior Frontend Web Developer of AVEVA
Anton is an avid coder and enjoys developing & using new web technologies. He manages the front end development team.
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About AVEVA: AVEVA is an engineering IT software provider to plant, power, and marine industries.
Scott McAlister
Senior Solutions Developer of HH Global
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About HH Global: HH Global is the trusted marketing execution partner of the world’s leading brands.
Dave Ranyard
Virtual Reality Developer & CEO of Dream Reality Interactive
Dave is director of Sony’s London Studio, famous for their pioneering work in Virtual Reality. Recent demos include The Deep, VR Luge and critically acclaimed The London Heist. Probably the most talked about VR experience to date. All the demos have been developed from the ground up for PlayStation VR and exhibited around the world at key games industry events such as E3, GDC and Gamescom.
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About Dream Reality Interactive: Dream Reality Interactive is a developer of VR experience studio.
Peder Johnsen
Software Developer of OpenGenius
Full stack developer and a hobby musician hailing from Norway.
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About OpenGenius, Tuno: Offering expert training and software solutions. The company behind internationally recognised brands ThinkBuzan, DropTask and HiCortex.
Greg Marsh
iOS and Unity Developer of Ocasta
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About Ocasta: Ocasta develops knowledge, training & education tech for your employees or students.
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
Simon Foulkes
Senior Software Developer of Xpress Software Solutions
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About Xpress Software Solutions: Xpress is the largest and most experienced supplier of electoral management software in the UK.
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.
Frederik Wagner
Co-Founder & Developer of Drafthound
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About Drafthound: Drafthound is an online platform for fantasy football gaming activities.
James Willard
Design Director, Front-end Developer of Tubular
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About Jyst Creative, Tubular: A sales tracking, collaboration, and workflow platform for sales teams.
Rob Symonds
Lead Developer of SchemeServe
The dark horse of SchemeServe. Rob is their longest serving programmer and has been working on the software since 2007. Cambridge born and bred, he likes to while away the evenings cooking. And he’s really good at ice skating (truly).
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About SchemeServe: SchemeServe is a cloud based insurance software, including simple scheme management, online billing and beautiful MI reports.
Martin McAuley
Developer of Digishare360
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About Digishare360: digiShare360 is a SaaS-based company specialized in the digital marketing and analytics sector.
Steve Power
Software Developer of Alpha Index
Steve Power is a software developer at Alpha Index.
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About Alpha Index: Alpha Index helps organizations transform their businesses through Salesforce and Sage Financials.
Rhydian Coombs
Senior Systems Developer of Alpha Index
Rhydian Coombs is a senior systems developer at Alpha Index.
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About Alpha Index: Alpha Index helps organizations transform their businesses through Salesforce and Sage Financials.
Rick Timmis
Full Stack Developer of GoodBeef Index
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About GoodBeef Index: GoodBeef Index develops software and online tools to link beef farmers and consumers.
Ian Anderson Gray
Co-founder, Digital Marketer, Social Tools Strategist & Web Developer of Select Performers
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About Select Performers: Select Performers is an internet solutions company.
Dave Liddament
Director & Software Developer of Lamp Bristol
Dave Liddament is a director and developer at Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 15 years in many languages including C, Python, Java, and PHP. Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He is an organizer and regular speaker at PHP-SW. He also runs a monthly workshop covering topics including testing, CI, and Git. When not busy coding, Dave enjoys scuba diving and running.
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About Lamp Bristol: Lamp Bristol offers web development services for digital agencies.
Sam Mbale
Professional Cloud Developer of Mpelembe Network
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About Arbirage Sdn Bhd, Mpelembe Network: Professional Cloud Services
Abu Bokor
Front-end Developer of SkipsoLabs
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About SkipsoLabs: Enterprise SaaS applications for contests, open innovation, crowdsourcing and cluster innovation.
Abu Bokor
Front-end Developer of SkipsoLabs
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About SkipsoLabs: Enterprise SaaS applications for contests, open innovation, crowdsourcing and cluster innovation.
Sarah Sigfrinius
FileMaker Developer of Linear Blue
Sarah is a FileMaker Developer for Linear Blue, based in the United Kingdom. She works hard as an advocate for young people in tech and is an active member in the Women of FileMaker (WOF) group. Starting her development career out of pure curiosity, over four years she achieved four FileMaker certifications which have completely transformed her professional career. When Sarah is not speaking in her session you will see her often around the WOF booth. Stop by and say hello!
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About Linear Blue: Cross-platform consulting company, specializing in custom software development of desktop, web applications and iOS tablet solutions.
