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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Isaac Kamga
Manager, Google Developer Group Buea of Google Developers Group
Isaac Kamga is the founder and manager of the Google Developer Group Buea www.gdgbuea.org, a community nonprofit funded by Google and ActivSpaces Cameroon. (The group GitHub can be found here.) Through the group, Isaac develops programs that have introduced over 300 youths to computer programming. The group currently hosts the largest number of female open source contributors and has produced over 30 Google Summer of Code participants from Cameroonian Universities. For the past two years, Isaac has served as country mentor for the 14 Google Developer Groups in Cameroon, where he pushes for more collaboration on common open source projects. Isaac has made research contributions in graphics, which he started when he was a Google Summer of Code Student under BRL-CAD. He is a co-organizer of the annual Silicon Mountain Conference, which brings together over 700 developers, creatives, and tech enthusiasts to the mountain area of Cameroon for a day of code labs, inspiration, and fun.
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About Google Developers Group: Google Developer Groups (GDG’s) are for developers who are interested in Google’s developer technology.
Alex Barton
Developer Partnerships of Facebook AI
Alex Barton is the Developer Partnerships of Facebook.
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About Facebook AI, Mush: Facebook AI offers technology and engineering services like theory, algorithms, applications, software and hardware infrastructure.
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.
Theodor Istrate
Full Stack Web Developer of Sensat
Theodor Istrate is currently SenSat’s Full Stack Web Developer. He graduated with Engineering Science in 2015 from Oxford University. He specialized in control systems, machine learning, and computer vision.
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About Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Lorna Mitchell
Developer Advocate of Aiven
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About Aiven: Aiven is an information technology company that manages open-source data infrastructure in the cloud.
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.
Elis Glynne Davies
Developer of Properr
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About Properr: Simplifying the property purchasing 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 Robinson
Education Developer of Raspberry Pi Foundation
James Robinson is Education Developer at Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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About Raspberry Pi Foundation: Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity that develops a credit card-sized computer that can be plugged into a TV and keyboard.
Gabriel Massana
iOS Developer of Poq
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About Poq: Poq offers a SAAS platform to help large retailers join app commerce.
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.
Craig Whiteside
Technical Lead Developer of Orka Technology Group
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Mike Waites
Lead Developer of Vizibl
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About Vizibl: Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
Francesco Iovine
Front-End Developer of Imagination Technologies
Francesco Iovine is a Front-End Developer at Imagination Technologies.
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
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.
Shuai Yuan
Lead Developer of Nozzle.ai
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About Nozzle.ai: Nozzle.ai is an eCommerce and advertising optimization platform for Amazon.
Shuai Yuan
Lead Developer of Nozzle.ai
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About Nozzle.ai: Nozzle.ai is an eCommerce and advertising optimization platform for Amazon.
Nigel Clarke
Software Developer of Expede IT Solutions Limited
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About Expede IT Solutions Limited: Expede is proud to be the home of ‘yada’ – the next generation of mobile event app allowing a true 360-degree view of all your events
Leigh Jones
Senior Developer – Designer of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Vu Le
Developer of Adoreboard
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About Adoreboard: Adoreboard is a unique platform that helps brands to understand online customer emotion.
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.)
Alex Prachuablarb
Senior Analyst Developer of Sendible
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About Sendible: Sendible, a social media marketing platform, allows individuals and businesses to engage with their customers across multiple channels.
Scott Gardner
Developer of Invrep – now trading as Reportally.com
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About Invrep – now trading as Reportally.com: Cap table and Investor reporting platform for startups
Niamh Power
iOS and Android Developer of Novoda
Niamh is an iOS and Android developer, working for Novoda in their Liverpool office in the UK. Having learnt Android and iOS development in parallel, she enjoys bringing the best of each world together and transferring knowledge between platforms. Lately, she has become a particular aficionado for Firebase and how it can greatly assist mobile development solutions. Also invested in the community, she runs the local Swift Society meetup as well as the Google Developer Group Liverpool.
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About Novoda: Creating meaningful mobile products that your customers will love and your business deserves.
David Smith
Core Developer of Credits
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About Credits: Blockchain Platform-As-A-Service
David Smith
Core Developer of Credits
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About Credits: Blockchain Platform-As-A-Service
Victor Popescu
Lead Developer of onkho
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About onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
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.
Daniela Gutperl
Frontend Developer | Digital Content Specialist of 10X PSYCHOLOGY LIMITED
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About 10X PSYCHOLOGY LIMITED: 10x Psychology significantly improves people performance in the workplace through insight, science and technology.
Daniel Sefton
Lead Full Stack Developer of EV-comply
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About EV-comply, TidalWare: EV-comply is a mobile software solution for installers of electric vehicle charge points.
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.
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
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.
Ian Huang
Founder & Lead Developer of Pubble
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About Learnpipe, Pubble: Pubble is a messaging platform that simplifies how your team interacts with your customers and with each other.
Kyle Fuller
IOS Developer of Cocode
Kyle Fuller is an independent software and mobile apps developer. He has developed applications like Palaver and has been developing apps for iOS platform.
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About Cocode: Software company, creator of Palaver
Stephen Brown
Developer of Codemakers
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About Codemakers: We make products for mobile and web. We are a UK digital consultancy that builds, delivers and markets bespoke products for mobile and web.
Mishal Shashikant
Front-End Developer of Vastari
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About Vastari: Vastari provides networking tools to connect museums and private sector directly to share information and organize exhibitions worldwide.
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.
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.
Steve Gordon
Developer Community Lead of Madgex
Steve Gordon is a Microsoft MVP, senior developer and community lead based in Brighton, UK. He works for Madgex (www.madgex.com) developing and supporting their new product portfolio built on ASP.NET Core technologies. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET on and off for over 15 years. Steve is currently developing microservice based products and services, using ASP.NET Core and Docker. He enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and at by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and has recently founded .NET South East, a .NET meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects, most actively helping save lives with open source software and the Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org). You can find Steve online at his blog www.stevejgordon.co.uk and on Twitter as @stevejgordon.
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About Madgex: Madgex provide a range of SaaS solutions and support services, that enable clients to unlock the value of their professional audiences.
Alex Allen
Software Developer of Seg
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About Seg: Connecting your ecommerce platform and your website to email.
Daniel Drozdzewski
Lead Developer of Scott Logic
Daniel Drozdzewski works as the Lead Developer at Scott Logic.
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About Scott Logic: At Scott Logic we create intuitive software applications for clients in the energy sector.
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.
Vladimir Kharlampidi
Frontend Developer of Intern Avenue
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About Intern Avenue: Intern Avenue is a revolutionary platform that connects students & graduates to well-paid internships and entry-level jobs.
Dakshal Raijada
Lead Developer of Superpowered Email
Specialising in: C#, dotnet, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, API, Javascript, Linq, SQL
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About Superpowered Email: Superpowered Email is an email security service provider that offers online user identity protection services to its users.
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.
Matt White
Lead Developer of Elguji Software
Matt is considered to be one of the leading XPages and Notes/Domino developers in the industry.
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About Elguji Software: Elguji Software Inc. creates and sells social networking software.
Paul Holliday
Director and Lead Software Developer of Farm Matters
Paul Holliday is the director and lead software developer at Farm Matters.
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About Farm Matters: Farm Matters develops a farm management software for farm record keeping needs.
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.
David Guerrero
Co-Founder & Mobile Developer of Quoders Mobile
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About Quoders Mobile: Quoders is an independent development studio based in Spain. We’re specialized in mobile technologies.
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.
Grigor Todorov
R&D Developer of Notelos
I’m an experienced developer that specialises in Mixed, Virtual and Augmented Reality. I’ve worked both independently as well as in medium sized teams. I’ve created numerous interactive experiences for large companies and smaller prototypes for myself.
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About Notelos: R&D that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in XR
Richard Fortscue-Webb
Developer of Zoetrope
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About Zoetrope: Zoetrope is an interactive 3D photography service for online retail.
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.
Emanuele Cali
CEO, Co-Founder and Web Developer/SEO Specialist of Bookzingr
Web Developer / SEO Specialist. CMS & Framework MVC expert. Supporter of Open Source. Always passionate of computer science, work in web projects since 1999.
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About Bookzingr: BookZingr is a social bookmarking platform that allows you to store, classify, tag and share links, photos and video.
Julius Sweetland
Developer of OptiKey
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About OptiKey: OptiKey is an assistive on-screen keyboard which runs on Windows.
