Sandro is a software craftsman, author, and a renowned international speaker. During his 25 years in the industry he has worked for companies of all sizes and industries. Having spent most of his career working for consultancies, Sandro had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of projects and gained experience in multiple programming languages, technologies, methodologies, processes, and organisational structures.
Sandro is a pioneer and thought leader in Software Craftsmanship. Since 2008, he helped to shape and spread Software Craftsmanship values and mindset around the world. He founded the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC) in 2010, wrote the The Software Craftsman in 2014, contributed to the creation of communities in many different countries, and is constantly invited to speak at many international events.
Combining his expertise in software design, architecture, test automation, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile methodologies, business processes, and technical strategies, Sandro has specialised in modernising strategic systems and processes in highly complex and regulated environments.
Mash is a pragmatic software craftsman always looking to improve his software creation skills and helping others do the same. He firmly believes that a well-rounded software craftsman must have a keen interest in all aspects of software creation, including; process, people, technology, user experience, development, operation, maintenance, and social impact. He relishes the daily challenges that Codurance brings to him–stretching his existing knowledge and expertise allowing him to constantly grow as a professional.
Mash is an advisor and a leader. During his diverse career, he has succeeded in invigorating large ailing software projects as well as creating highly effective software teams and departments. His broad and deep technical knowledge, organisational skills, craft focus, and empathy to people involved have been integral to his success. He has worked in many roles for charities, investment banks, consultancies, government, media and cloud providers. He prides himself at being a hands-on software developer and believes that software development skills are very hard to learn and the best way to maintain them is to apply them.
Steve is a Software Craftsman and author with over 20 years professional experience. He first discovered his passion for code at the age of seven, when his father brought home a Sinclair Spectrum and a portable black and white television. The countless hours spent typing in listings from Sinclair User magazine sparked an enthusiasm for programming that has stayed with him for life.
During his career, Steve has worked on projects in a wide variety of sectors including retail e-commerce, finance, education, media, government and healthcare, developing large-scale, resilient, distributed systems on an assortment of platforms. He currently specialises in solutions built on the Microsoft .Net stack, with a particular interest in cloud computing using the Microsoft Azure platform.
Steve is a pragmatic problem solver with a focus on the delivery of high-quality, robust and maintainable code. He is a passionate advocate of continuous improvement, both for software and software developers and believes that the future success of the software industry relies on the sharing of knowledge gained through experience.
He is a member of the Microsoft Azure Advisor's Group and the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC).
Francesco started in Italy as a Software Developer and System Administrator and his career changed dramatically when he arrived in London. He embraced DevOps, Self Organisation, and Software Craftsmanship. He implemented systems using Event Sourcing and React. He attends Open Conferences like SoCraTes and DevOpsDays.
The two most important learnings, so far, have been the need for a Mutual Learning mindset for effective teamwork and the ubiquity of trade-offs.
Some things have remained the same: the desire to understand the behaviour of systems, the fearless crossing of system boundaries and responsibilities, and the love for good design and usable interfaces.
Christina has been working as a software developer and team leader in the .NET ecosystem for a number of years. She particularly enjoys process automation and generally making other peoples jobs easier.
Starting out playing with visual basic at the age of 16, she moved on to study software development at university and has been coding ever since.
Christina has a passion for self-improvement and is always looking for new learning opportunities, across a wide variety of subject matters.
Outside of work, Christina is an avid consumer of sci-fi and fantasy books as well as enjoying weightlifting and bouldering amongst other strength-based activities.
Sandro discovered his unmistakable passion for programming in 2016. From the onset, he became obsessed with doing things the right way. His hobby quickly became his addiction, as he spent any free time honing his skills.
With a few IT certificates behind his name, he joined the Project codeX program in 2017 for an arduous year of Web Development in JavaScript, under the mentorship of a formidable Software Craftsman.
In that year-long dojo, he learned to adopt and appreciate the values that constitute a successful craftsman. It felt wrong to write any code if its purpose wasn't meant to make a test pass.
Test-driven development, pair programming, humility, communication, collaboration, passion, continuous learning, pragmatism, pride, respect, professionalism - all these terms became inextricably woven with his perception of a Software Craftsman.
Above all, he aspires to be a true Craftsman, and looks forward to the lifelong journey.
In his spare time, Sandro enjoys spending time with his loved ones, cooking and playing video games, like Dota 2 and Path of Exile.
Keith Smale
Analyst Craftsperson
Keith has been a Business Analyst/Product Owner for over 6 years in the financial services sector and also has experience working in operational teams.
With a passion for digital product development, Keith is a team player who strives to maximise business value whilst building great products.
Outside of work, Keith spends his time with his family, mostly chasing after his young daughter.
Before joining Codurance he worked for a major UK retailer on their website, from developing a front-end framework to help product teams to move faster, to APIs those teams would use.
He loves working with passionate individuals, and those that share a desire to better not just themselves and others, but the software they write.
Outside of work he enjoys keeping fit and walking in the outdoors.
Mattsi is an ambitious software developer that loves to learn and believes in "doing it right the first time", putting quality software first.
Before joining Codurance he experienced a broad career across full-stack and back-end development roles in education, international e-commerce and financial technology, all focusing on the ASP.Net stack.
More recently he has worked extensively in NodeJS microservices with React front-ends and AWS infrastructure, in financial publishing.
Outside of work he enjoys weightlifting, Chess, music, festivals, and tabletop games, and takes an enthusiastic interest in science, technology and self-improvement.
Chris has a background in digital production and has helped a renowned research institute in Switzerland to communicate about their excellent science for a couple of years, primarily by developing web services and improving user experience. During this time he had a good sniff around more ambitious IT projects and that made him go back to university to learn more about information systems. Bursting with new knowledge, he was then feeding his potential into a new career as a software engineer.
Joining Codurance has propelled him forward on the journey towards mastery of delivering high-quality software. Applying the ideas of the Software Craftsmanship approach to development has been a great influence in growing his professional expertise. He is mostly developing on the JVM and he embraces test-driven development and the extreme programming methodology.
Chris didn’t get around too much as a youngster and so he’s on a mission to catch up with travelling the world that has so far brought him to a few distant places on nearly all of the continents. He enjoys the parklife, trips to the coast and exploring the urban jungle. He’s got a healthy video gaming habit and is a bit of a Trekkie.
Jim is a Business Analyst/Product Owner who has over 20 years experience in software projects. He has an extensive background with the Financial Services industry, especially within the derivatives markets, where he took a sojourn from his IT career to work as a trader.
Jim loves to work in collaborative teams, and enjoys working as a conduit between the business stakeholders and the delivery team, helping the team to understand business requirements and devise solutions. He has been an active participant in the Software Craftsmanship movement since its early days, and also enjoys attending various community Meetups. He is passionate about continuously learning and finding new ways to develop his skills, relishing the challenge of adapting in a fast evolving industry and helping his colleagues to develop as software professionals.
Outside of Codurance, Jim loves to travel and is an avid reader of history. He also enjoys going to the theatre and watching as much rugby, cricket and football as time permits.
Although relatively new to the professional world of software development, Alasdair has been developing as hobby since an early age. Initially, he was drawn to development in the C programming language after discovering an interest in penetration testing and exploit development. After a brief stint working as a penetration tester, Alasdair chose to adjust his career path to focus more specifically on becoming a developer. Since then, he has graduated university with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and worked for a software consultancy developing bespoke web applications.
As a Software Craftsman at Codurance Alasdair strives to be professional, honest and approachable. He believes strongly in the principles behind craftsmanship and mastery and seeks to apply those principles at every opportunity.
Outside of work Alasdair enjoys riding his motorbike, Thai boxing, travelling and hanging out with friends.
Ivan’s background starts with a degree in Economics, however, this was never his passion. Of all Economics subjects, he enjoyed Behavioural Economics where working with people was essential. Luckily, his path led him to a second degree in Software Development where he was finally able to fully dedicate his time to what he is most passionate about.
His professional career started in the utility sector where he learned about the full software lifecycle. He was involved in customer interaction, requirements gathering, software deployment, configuration, Linux administration and security, and in writing small pieces of software to support internal processes.
Ivan loves learning about and implementing new technologies and software engineering paradigms. He strongly believes that technology should not be created or used just for the sake of the technology itself. While picking up and learning about new software is extremely exciting, the aim of the engineer should be to improve people’s lives and him or herself through his craft. Improvement is more beneficial, fun and easier when done with other people, teamwork is key.
In his free time, Ivan enjoys sports (especially basketball) and trying new types of food. He is also a big fan of anime and fantasy books.
Alexandru Ignat
Software Craftsperson
Alex is a result-oriented DevOps Consultant with more than 5 years experience in IT infrastructure.
He likes to promote agnostic, cloud-native solution approaches. His goal is to constantly improve himself as a software developer.
I lead and support a team of exceptional people whose purpose is to accelerate organizations and to help them reach their goals.
Together we help organizations tackle the challenges they face, guiding and mentoring them as they evolve by improving how they work.
Sid recruits for our London and Manchester offices.
Sid has been recruiting in technology for the last 5 years and really enjoys listening to people's stories. He takes immense pleasure in identifying people's career aspirations and finding the right role and work culture for them.
In his spare time he enjoys watching Star Trek (the original series), travelling and eating ramen.
Arnaud Claudel
Software Craftsman
Arnaud started to work in a big IT company but quickly got tired of the lack of quality in his projects.
He then tried to find new ways of working and met a lot of passioned people across meetups.
When looking for his post-graduation job, Software Craftsmanship began the most important keyword to filter the offers, this is why he eventually ended up at Codurance.
During his freetime, he likes to listen to classical music, (try to) do some sports and explore the city.
Helena Abellán
Head of Communications and Marketing (Spain)
Helena is Head of Communications and Marketing at Codurance Spain. She is an educational and psychologist and journalist, and for more than 18 years has been exclusively dedicated to working in communications and marketing.
She expanded her studies with a Postgraduate Digital Media and Online Content degree at the Ramón Llull University. With the rise of the internet she decided to devote herself to digital communication and then became interested in branded content and content marketing and trained in this discipline. Later she completed her studies with a specialization in Applied Neuromarketing from the University of Barcelona.
She has worked for both brand and agency. The experience of working as the client and also as a service provider has given her a holistic vision regarding the expectations that need to be met in marketing and communication.
She likes to live and work as a scout: "Scouts leave the world better than how they found it". She believes that the best way to do her best is to be part of a team that aspires to exceed customer expectations, grows in their abilities, are cohesive and maintain healthy relationships.
She loves the summer, the beach, restoring old furniture, airplanes and a winter afternoon of reading or watching a movie in front of the fireplace.
Jocelyn Facchini
Software Craftsperson
Jocelyn started to get curious about programming at the age of 13 whilst using IRC clients, which was running a quiz game and allowed him to explore the scripts behind the game. It was only during his University studies that he discovered how facinating programming was which lead him to graduate with a Masters degree in Distributed Systems.
Coming from a musical background in parallel, he knows the importance of continous practice and how rewarding it is in the long run.
He first heard about eXtreme Programming during his studies and after a few years he discovered how to use the practice of TDD which was a revelation of what programming means for him. Having understood the power of fundamental principles in software development, he started to fill up his e-book reader library.
He's always looking for developing high quality software in order to make developers and users life easier.
Outside of work he enjoys the vast variety of craft beers, going out in nice weather to cycle around the city, playing a bit of table tennis and learning new languages, human and programming.
Zabih Safdari
Head of Finance
Zabih is our Head of Finance with a First-Class honour’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the Birkbeck University of London and AAT advance Diploma qualification. Zabih has over 7 years of experience in financial and management accounts. Previously, he worked for a Media Firm where he was Head of Finance for 4 years. Prior to that Zabih was with the United Nations and Norwegian Embassy as a programme officer in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Zabih is a hard-working, enthusiastic team player. And whether it’s matching the day books with the ledger control accounts, resolving client queries or processing payments, he likes to think the oil he adds to Codurance financial cogs help keep the company moving on up.
When he is not super busy balancing the books, Zabih can be found playing snooker or watching documentary movies. He also loves to spend time with his family, especially his newest addition (baby girl) to the family!
Emily joined Codurance in sunny Barcelona and takes care of People Operations.
She loves her job, basically spreading the word about Codurance and Software Craftmanship and finding new crafters to join us! She really identifies with the culture of continuous learning and the team of passionate, curious and humble craftspeople she works with every day!
We could write another paragraph here but if you want to find out more, just ask her directly! (answers available in French, English, Spanish and hopefully soon in Catalan).
She will probably ask a lot of questions in return so do tell her if it feels too much like an interview!
Other than that she loves reading books about everything and anything, outdoor activities (like hiking) and board games.
Kristian Muñoz
Software Craftsperson
Kristian started his career working on hardware and network industry but soon he realised that this was not his role and started learning software development.
He found out what he really liked and has been working as a backend developer since then.
He has experience with PHP but if you ask him he will tell you the great things about Kotlin.
In his free time he likes to do CrossFit and outdoor sports, astronomy, reading books and Netflix, for sure.
After completing his degree in Computer Science, Matt joined a medium-sized online travel company as a Systems Developer. During his time there he got the opportunity to work with a team of consultants from ThoughtWorks on building the first Service-Oriented-Architecture within the company. That was Matt’s first experience working in an Agile manner and following XP practices. From there, his passion for Agile practices and software craftsmanship grew and a year later he joined ThoughtWorks.
During 8 years with ThoughtWorks, Matt worked with a large number of clients across many locations, tech stacks, languages and technical architectures. He played numerous roles during his time from Software Developer to Technical Lead. Matt is passionate about helping Organisations improve their software delivery capabilities, whether it be through embedding good technical practices or establishing a clear technical vision.
In his spare time, Matt enjoys travelling, playing the guitar and keeping fit. He also currently learning Vietnamese.
Having discovered code on a friend's ZX81 at the age of 10, pair programming started early for Dmitri.
He still believes that coding, at its most rewarding, is a social activity and that there's nothing better than the appreciation of our colleagues and the people who benefit from our software.
When he isn't coding he likes to travel, meet new people and discover new ways of thinking. Ideally while swimming, mountain biking or skiing in beautiful parts of the world.
Javier joined the Software Craftsmanship community in Chile, back in 2016, where along with other friends and colleagues, ran the first Latin American Socrates the same year and one more time 2017.
Mainly identified as a backend developer, he has played other roles including Lead developer, Head of Engineering, Mentor, DevOps engineer, tea drinker, etc. since 2009.
The last couple of years, he spent his time working as a remote freelance developer and consultant for companies from Chile, Indonesia and China.
When not working, he likes to play videogames (mainly RPGs), take long walks, watch documentaries, read blog entries and explore Quora.
Sebastian took his first steps into professional software development by attending Software Crafters meetups when he experienced XP Programming for first time and got hooked.
Previously working for a digital marketing agency, focused on social media, as a backend developer in PHP he got experience in solving problems.
He wants to share experiences and support others in achieving their goals while developing his programming skills. In his free time he enjoys hiking, playing guitar and climbing occasionally.
As Head of Marketing and Partnerships, Natalie is responsible for overseeing the UK strategy of creating deep and lasting partnerships with Codurance’s clients and communities. She has more than 30 years experience in the tech industry, having played pivotal roles at a variety of tech companies spanning business development, partner management, product development and community building.
Natalie believes that collaboration is the best way to drive business, project and product success and loves connecting people with shared interests to create greater value. Codurance therefore was a natural fit as an organisation that shares and supports these values both within the team and its wider clients and community ecosystem.
Natalie is an advocate for driving greater inclusion and diversity within UK tech. She is an Ambassador for the Tech Talent Charter, D&I Lead for the AWS UK User Group and Mentor for Global Diversity CFP Day.
Outside of work, Natalie enjoys trying new things; she has recently hosted a podcast, built a website and gave her first ‘proper’ talk in public. In her spare time, you will find Natalie chasing around after her 2 children and Chester the cockapoo or on vacation in Andalucia, Spain where she lived and ran a guesthouse in a former life!
Born in India, Harish started coding websites when he was in high school. His first professional job was at the age of 23 as a Sharepoint Consultant. Since then, he has shown a passion for writing good quality Software and has followed prescribed software engineering disciplines including Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, and Continuous Delivery. He is proficient in C# and JavaScript and has taken a keen interest in Functional Programming recently.
Harish enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, writing blogs, playing video games, good wine, and cooking.
Maciej began coding at the age of 16 in Pascal and C++. During his university years, he stumbled upon Java, and it has been his main programming language ever since.
Adopting early on the practices of TDD and XP in his professional career, he is an avid advocate of automated testing and cannot really imagine developing code without a comprehensive suite of tests.
Maciej has also been a team lead on some of his previous projects and leading software teams to victory is one of his greatest passions as well.
In his spare time he likes to train olympic weightlifting, play guitar, read a classic book or listen to some good music.
Born and raised in Italy, Fabio started using computers when Windows 95 first came out.
During his studies, he stumbled upon networks and became so fascinated that started to work part-time for two different companies in the field.
The first professional programming experience came along in a small software house driven by agile methodologies and quality. During his career, Fabio has worked across Italy and The Netherlands for various industries (automotive, e-commerce, telco, media, government, legal) developing distributed systems based on JVM stack using Spring Framework and hosted in AWS/Azure platform.
He's been always in love with all the processes around software, especially continuous integration/delivery/deployments and all the tools around them. Fabio embraces the DevOps mindset and firmly believe that "How it is done is as important as getting it done".
He moved to London to join Codurance having the possibility through an apprenticeship to sharpen and boost his skills and become a Software Craftsman.
He's a passionate drummer and he loves playing volleyball and climbing walls.
Pablo fell in love with development in his teenage years. Since then, he has worked in many projects including desktop, web and mobile.
He is passionate about craftmanship values, XP practices and self improvment. He learns a new programming language a year (at least).
When he is not working, he likes to go out with friends. He loves music. He plays guitar (not to well). He loves reading a good book as well as going to watch a masterpiece movie in the cinema.
Lesmes is an Agile Delivery Manager who pursues always the finding of the right balance between business, UX and technology with the best value/cost ratio possible. He has education in computer science, UX, design, marketing, project management and Agile.
He has more than 14 years of experience developing digital products in all parts of the life cycle, from start-ups to mature products. He's been working several years in domains and hosting sector and consultancy with cross-functional teams. Playing a diversity of roles, from execution to strategic planning.
He's always looking to learn something new, looking for new insights in any subject to help teams to improve the value given to organizations. In his free time he likes to do DIY, learning new matters in tech, reading psychology, cooking and hiking.
Robert is responsible for overseeing and expanding new business opportunities at Codurance UK. Throughout his career in technology consultancy he has supported organisations on software modernisation, cloud adaptation as well as the design and development of critical business applications for a number of the UK’s leading brands.
Alongside an exciting career at Codurance, Robert is a Father, Husband, a somewhat consistent runner and a thrill-seeking mountain climber.
Cameron first got involved in basic web development by making websites for friends and family. Since then, he has been spending much of his free time attending courses in development, best practices etc. to learn as much as possible about as many relevant technologies as possible.
Previously, Cameron worked in a marketing agency with a focus on social media, where he used his skills to better analyse the performance of social media profiles on platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn - whilst maintaining internal applications to help streamline the workflows of his colleagues.
In his free time, Cameron enjoys playing guitar, stand up comedy and working on his personal projects.
George Harris
Software Craftsperson
George fell into a career in technology through a happy accident having come from a linguistics background. Although he started working as an automation tester he has experience with web development, working to improve UX and engagement with public services for local government, as well as .NET backend systems for a larger enterprise company. He is very keen to hone his skills and loves sharing knowledge and ideas.
He loves cooking and languages and can easily talk your ear off about etymology. When he’s not cooking George likes to spend his time playing board games and D&D.
Rodrigo Nascimento is an experienced consultant with 30+ years of experience in IT. He has been working across different industries from the strategy definition down to the technical implementation, ensuring that deliverables can be traced to the promised business values.
The combination of his passion for technology (which started when he was 10 years old with his first ZX Spectrum) and his strong academic business background (bachelor's degree in Marketing and MBA) have been used in many organisations to optimise the utilisation of IT resources and capabilities to leverage competitive advantage.
Outside work, Rodrigo enjoys spending time with his family and has few hobbies, including cycling, tennis, guitar and building gadgets.
Ursula Grande
Lead Graphic Designer
Ursula is a multidisciplinary graphic designer with an extensive background in editorial design and branding, now deepening her knowledge of UI/UX and animation. She studied classical Graphic Design in Vienna, finished a Master’s for web and app design in Barcelona and is always eager to learn new skills. You can talk to her in German, English and Spanish, have basic small talk in French or hear her ordering coffee in Norwegian.
Away from work she spends her free time with ceramics, running, practising yoga, photography, cooking for friends, travelling or whatever beautiful Barcelona has to offer at the time.
Alistair Findlay
Software Craftsperson
Alistair has been working in software development for over 18 years in industries that include Construction, Broadcasting and most recently, Finance.
He has worked in C# and .NET for the majority of his career, and recently he has been enjoying discovering how Docker can improve the developer experience.
Continual improvement is important to Alistair, and he is happiest when learning from and sharing knowledge with others.
Outside of work, Alistair plays the drums and has performed on stage for various charity gigs in the past. He also enjoys playing 5-a-side and the occasional spot of baking.
Matheus Marabesi
Software Craftsperson
Marabesi is addicted to software development in general, due to that, two books came out as a passion for sharing. As a hobby he likes to play with Raspberry PI and to dive into the IoT world.
Besides that he’s an aspiring researcher focused on software testing and gamification, so far he developed Testable, a gamified tool that aims to improve the unit test teaching approach, trying to change the boring perception that developers have in learning how to test their code.
Javier is passionate about technology and how it serves with purpose to business and society. This interest pushed him to study engineering and at the university was where he found a deep joy developing software applications that solve problems, from algebraic problems to communication systems. That was also the reason why for a period of his life he went into academia for researching applied machine learning and brain functionalities.
Despite this joy in technical activities, his experience showed him that one of the key parts for creating spaces of growth is communication. Many of the issues we encounter as professionals are in the different ways we express ideas or how we translate these ideas to other people. So his current focus is on translating technical ideas into channels of communication that can be easily understood by different types of audiences.
His experience is mainly as backend developer, data scientist and data engineer. Working primarily with Python 🐍, He always wants to learn and put his hands on other languages. He plays with javascript from time to time mainly to keep up to date and make some basic web apps. And lately he is quite interested in Rust as a language that could bring computation power together with decent lean time.
Alan is an experienced Agile Delivery Manager with a 20-year career in technology spanning the public sector, varying size of consultancies and large corporates. He started out by breaking the family PC on a regular basis, then moved onto software development and in the last 10 years, he’s been helping teams achieve value for their customers as a delivery manager. He recently achieved a qualification in Management of Portfolios which gave him a new appreciation of how to effectively manage change at an organisational level as well.
He has worked on a huge range of projects, including finance data warehouses, secure government systems and various public-facing web platforms. Alan's technical knowledge covers the MS .NET stack, Azure, the world of Java and AWS, but his real passion lies in delivering software projects using Agile techniques and helping teams achieve their full potential through collaborative working practices.
All this adds up to him being an advocate for delivering high-quality software solutions to the customers that he works with. He firmly believes that a pragmatic approach to quality delivers the best results for all and pays for itself in the end.
Sabrina has been working in IT for almost 4 years now, mainly in the automotive industry, both on the client and supplier side.
During her last experience, she daily managed challenging clients and worked with dev teams based across Europe.
Before starting working, she enjoys a short workout session before her first cup of coffee.
Sabrina loves travelling regardless of the number of hours of flight but also love staying in London to enjoy its markets, restaurants, cultural activities (out of Covid times) and after work, drinks!
Antony Pointon
Business Analyst
Antony has been a focused data-driven BA & product owner for over 8 years, mostly within consumer finance and an interesting couple of years working on mobile iPlayer for the BBC.
Antony is a passionate business-analyst, and enjoys nothing more than mapping out (both existing and new) processes, working together with close-knit teams to find the best way through a problem, and facilitating communication with stakeholders. He also loves getting his head into the data and finding insights, allowing the business to make the best decisions moving forward.
Away from work, Antony will be found spending his free time with his wife and two beagles, hiking around the Cheshire hillside and beyond. He is also a fervent American football fan, supporting the Arizona Cardinals and involved in a UK fantasy NFL league, which allows him to combine his love of data insights with the sport.
Since a young age, Rashid has been passionate about technology, computers, and electronics tinkering, greatly influencing his professional IT career.
Rashid has a mechanical engineering background from education, specialising in machine building, and this experience helped him work on mechanical and IT projects later. During his IT career, he began his journey from installing PC software and hardware to building servers and networking infrastructure on-premise racks on hi-tech audio-visual IT setups.He then worked solely on the cloud environment, utilising his infrastructure, DevOps, and troubleshooting skills. Working with companies big and small, he provided support, advice, and consultancy to clients.
Rashid is always keen to learn new skills and technologies. He loves experimenting with new tools and solutions while discovering innovative ways of doing things.
When not working on IT projects, Rashid likes to spend his time indulging in his hobbies. He is passionate about cycling, gardening, and visiting historical places with his family. Rashid is also a massive motorcycle enthusiast who enjoys riding solo or with his mates.
Following her studies of Business and Marketing, Emily secured a marketing role in the Technology industry and never looked back.
Priding herself on having an eye for detail, Emily specialises in multi-channel campaigning to various B2B verticals, joining the dots between unique industry pain points and the right technology solutions to answer real business problems. Always on the search to improve, Emily loves to analyse data-driven findings to optimise her work and engage in self-learning to expand her skills.
Emily spends her free time with friends and family, enjoying (or rather enduring) spin classes, hosting gatherings, and adding character to her new-build home.
Alejandro Morell Cenalmor
Platform Engineer
Alejandro started with computers in college, and though it was ok it never stuck with him.
He started working monitoring systems and diving into J2E application containers, but it wasn't until his first contact with containers, orchestrators and cloud systems that he saw this as what he wanted to do for living: build stable platforms, help teams to fulfill their objectives and have fun learning about an endless and constantly changing world. He saw this as an opportunity to apply in work environments the two things he likes to do most: solve problems and help people.
On a personal level, he is now focused on his two canine daughters: Kira and Zelda. Besides spending time with them, he loves playing video games, boardgames, tabletop rpgs, 3d printing, watching tv shows and anime, traveling, cooking... basically he loves doing any hands-on project (the last of them being making natural soaps and gardening).
One of his favourite quotes: "I miss another 24h in my day"
Sam is a skilled Platform Engineer who loves building high performing teams to deliver robust, reliable and scalable systems in the cloud. He fell into technology after completing a Geography degree at University and hasn’t looked back.
Sam has gained a wide variety of experience with different sized enterprises, meaning that he is able to identify appropriate solutions for the task in hand, with a mixture of pragmatism and informed decisions. He particularly enjoys the design and build process, to enable applications and services to run at scale. He has primarily been involved with AWS solutions in the past, however is able to turn his hand to any tech (as Platform Engineers we don’t have much choice!).
Outside of work, Sam is currently training for a half-marathon - time will tell if this is successful! He enjoys rambling around the Yorkshire Dales, photography and attempting to cook nice food.
Amandeep Panesar
Software Craftsperson
Aman graduated from Kingston University having studied Information Systems. After graduating in 2018, he gained commercial experience in the Ed Tech industry as a front end developer. Aman has also taken out time to broaden his technological skills by developing applications across the stack ranging from backend systems to deployment.
Aman’s interest in software design and architecture has led him to pursue a career as a software craftsman to deliver high quality applications.
In his free time, Aman is a keen percussionist and sound engineer. He has performed with live bands in the Asian wedding industry. Aman is also developing his athleticism in powerlifting.
Simon Rosenberg
Software Craftsperson
Having begun his career in finance as a qualified accountant, Simon soon discovered a passion for software development. He believes well-crafted programs are the best way to simplify, improve and modernise business processes and finds joy in the everyday problem-solving present in programming. He has experience with a broad range of JavaScript related technologies on both the front-end and back-end of web and mobile applications.
When he isn’t coding, Simon enjoys exploring new places at home or abroad, getting out into nature and reading.
Jason Williams is a skilled IT Professional with 30+ years of experience, with the last 20 years specialising in Integration. He has been working in many different IT roles from Operations to Technical Integration Architecture most recently as a Solution Engineer for a well-known retail company, that unfortunately was lost due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
With a genuine love for all things Technology from a young age, this has kept Jason in the industry for so long, with no intentions to leave any time soon.
Outside work, Jason has been a keen motorcyclist for the past 35 years with the current motorbike being a Kawasaki Ninja, just coming up to its 20th birthday. During the pandemic, Jason found the great outdoors and spent lots of time exploring all the local footpaths in Somerset, where he lives. He is also a CAMRA member enjoying the local real ales and keeps his own hens to supply fresh eggs for friends and family.
Lee Sanderson
Principal Software Craftsperson
Lee has over 25 years of experience in software development as a Developer, Team Lead, Architect, Principal Engineer, Development Manager, Scrum Master, and hands-on CTO. He is a polyglot programmer, with commercial experience developing and leading teams using most modern technologies.
Since building his first ASP.NET web application in 2001 using the public beta version of .NET 1.0, Lee has become an expert in C# and the .NET stack. He has been continually involved in designing and building ASP.NET applications for the last 20 years and deploying them to Azure and AWS for the last 8.
Lee has successfully helped teams accelerate by streamlining their development processes using a combination of XP, Agile methods, and continuous delivery while maintaining clean architecture and well-crafted code.
In his spare time, Lee enjoys spending time with family and thinking about how the application of AI and machine learning will affect software engineering.
Abdulrahman Tayib
Agile Delivery Manager
A keen technologist, Abdul has been passionate about Science and Technology from a young age. Starting his career in Engineering and Technical Support, Abdul worked extensively with cloud-based applications before moving into an agile leadership role.
Within his career, Abdul has worked on large scale transformations and agile product workstreams. His specialism is mostly on agile process improvement and technology excellence, with a particular focus on platforms and building a DevOps work culture to drive good business outcomes and excellent customer experiences.
Abdul is a keen Fencer and enjoys reading about most subjects, especially History.
Glenn Healy
Software Craftsperson
Originally training to become a chef before attending university, Glenn has a love of creative ideas and new experiences. He focuses on solving problems and is constantly looking for interesting ones to get engaged with. He believes code should be easy to read and maintain. Good code is clean code.
After university, he worked for Sage People building api’s and integrations using .NET, AWS and Salesforce for three years before joining Codurance.
In his spare time, he loves to study Poker, collect rare whisky, obsess over coffee science, and play video games. In July of 2021, he married his partner of over 11 years.
Bruno Rodrigues
Platform Engineer
Bruno has been working in the telco sector since the beginning of his career, having passed through different roles from platform operations to IP engineering. That wide experience brought him to work currently as a cloud architect where he has been designing hybrid architectures with a simple goal, to let customers consume services, both on premisses or remotely in a public cloud region. To do this job, he always works to find the state-of-the-art strategies to build the infrastructure with agility, using collaborative tools and following the highest security standards.
In his free time, besides spending quality time with his family, Bruno prefers outdoor activities like playing tennis, surfing, cycling or riding his motorcycle. But when the weather forces him to stay indoors, he enjoys home brewing his own craft beers
Marc is an enthusiast of agile and open source software. He loves to work in a field where people and companies share part of their software so others don’t have to deal with the same problems nor reinvent the wheel. While working in different places and projects he came across agile software development and enjoyed its flexibility and focus on quality, delivery and self-improvement of the team and enjoys helping on that.
His career path has included a great deal of corporate web and e-commerce projects with Symfony and Javascript. However he enjoys playing with many other languages such as Python, Java, Rust, … He also likes to have some pet projects to learn languages and frameworks and improve his ways of working.
Aside from software development Marc loves music being singing in a choir, playing the hurdy-gurdy, writing music or dancing balfolk. He also enjoys playing board games and hiking.
Javier Martínez Abarca
Software Craftsperson
Javier is a tech lover and the world of robotics and artificial intelligence. Since he was young he has always been interested in computers and how they work. So before he started programming, he studied computer science based on hardware to understand how to build a computer from scratch.However, he say that not everything is the hardware, also the software is really important to find the perfect balance in tech projects. Reason why he passed the last 7 years learning and improving his skills as developer, always with the aim of improve the performance and quality of his work.
In his spare time, he enjoys movies, especially science fiction and fantasy films, music of all generes, team sports and board games.
Mark Ashfield
Software Craftsperson
Mark has been a software engineer since the early 1990s, he spent over a decade in the defence industry before moving to a commercial role.
He has enjoyed working as part of a team on a vast array of projects from weapon systems for destroyers to the Williams F1 Driving Simulator (aVDS) and technology stacks from real-time embedded microprocessors to web API data analysis.
The one constant amongst all this variety has been a drive for high quality and the study of principles and practises that will help achieve this.
In his spare time, Mark enjoys exploring the outdoors with his 4 children and turns his passion for learning to music/music theory and playing the bass guitar.
Brian Hoang
Software Craftsperson
Brian previously worked in video editing before transitioning into coding, where he self-taught himself through online resources and practice. In his time as a web developer, he primarily used React and also worked on a few mobile applications and full-stack development.
He enjoys learning about new technologies and programming languages such as Python and C#, to have a broad spectrum of knowledge into other areas such as machine learning.
In his free time, Brian has a varied number of interests including video games, music production and bouldering.
After several years working in the Tourism industry, moving across the ocean and six intense months in a bootcamp, she has finally discovered her vocation as a Software developer.
Sofia enjoys working in multicultural teams and learning as much as possible from every experience and person that crosses her path.
She likes exploring the city with her bike (popularly known as Velociraptor), reading under the winter sun, travelling and meeting with friends.
Estefanía Moreno Roig
Head of Finance and Administration
Estefanía is our Financial Controller in Spain and she has more than 8 years of experience working in an international IT environment. She is approachable, team oriented, always open to help and collaborate with others and aims to have a positive impact on her surroundings.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring the world, a good cup of coffee and some "tapas" with friends. If she had to choose which trip to highlight, it would be Peru without hesitation.
Nicola Rushton
Software Craftsperson
Nicola has always enjoyed problem solving, starting work as a mechanical engineer before to discovering her passion for coding.
She started her software development journey using VBA to model fluid flow through pipelines, before teaching herself Python and JavaScript to analyse airport processes and develop interactive web applications. She particularly enjoys collaborating with clients, creating solutions which improve their business performance.
Outside of work you will find Nicola cycling or hiking through the countryside, playing video games and crocheting.
Simón Fernández Besteiro
Software Craftsperson
Simon started as an Industrial Engineer who found a passion in programming and decided to increase his knowledge in that field with courses and bootcamps. He has worked as a System Administrator and Software Developer in International Companies in sectors like furniture and HPC (High Performance Computing).
He enjoys getting out of his comfort zone. Always finding new challenges which improve his career path, new hobbies and sports to try out.He uses his free time with photography, cooking new recipes, hiking and camping.
Oliver Wood
Software Craftsperson
Oliver has a keen interest in all things creative, originally from a Music background with a degree in Music technology he moved into software development over 3 years ago after undertaking a coding boot camp.
His main experience is in .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript and AWS, to name a few, but would love to eventually get around to learning things like blockchain and machine learning.
A few things he loves about coding are: the freedom and creativity; the joy of problem solving; and the ability to always improve and further your skillset.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing the guitar, running, bouldering, travelling to new places and meeting new people.
Cristina Rodríguez Subirats
Office Manager- Spain
Cristina has the responsibility of “making everything work in harmony”. Cristina enjoys her work and making everyone feel safe and supported in Codurance. She has been working in business organizations and logistics, interacting with the public for over 15 years. She enjoys a nice office environment and truly believes in the power of teamwork.
Cristina is sociable and new friendships and knowledge are always welcome! She actively collaborates with both DISA (Cáritas Premià de Mar) and Aprodega (Protectora de gatos de Vilassar de Dalt). In her free time, you might see her cycling through some nearby mountain on her MTB or going for a ride at the local maritime promenade and, if it rains, restoring some old piece of furniture.
Diego Lambertus
Country Manager for Portugal
Graduated in software engineering, Diego started his career as a Java developer and worked as a programmer until he was responsible for the internet banking of one of the largest banks in Brazil. Then he dedicated his career to other areas, but always related to software development, as an agile coach, pre-sales engineer and also as operations manager for a large technology company. During the last 10 years, he has created a company dedicated to providing internet connections for the corporate market and also an RPA and Hyperautomation as a service startup, where he has held both the roles of CEO and CTO. In the last two years, Diego has worked as a DevOps Engineer in some companies in Australia and recently moved to Europe to join the Codurance team.
Edward Farrow
Software Craftsperson
Ed started out programming PHP scripts to administer a network of Counter Strike: Source servers that he ran. He left the world of PHP behind for a short stint programming VBA and moved into Python programming during an internship. His final project for his biochemistry degree was a fuzzy regex program to find short repeating sequences of DNA (microsatellites) while allowing a degree of error. His professional career has been mostly in C# and has taken him to many different sectors, including travel and hospitality, pharmaceuticals and the fintech sector before arriving at Codurance.
Ed has a keen focus on software architecture and communicating the need for architectural design to the wider business. He also has a particular interest in managing technical debt within organisations, including handling technical debt as part of wider business risk management frameworks.
In his spare time, Ed still plays Counter Strike (although his skill level leaves a lot of room for improvement!).
Taciana Rossoni
Office Manager
Originally from Brazil she moved to the UK over 20 years ago. She graduated in Computer Science back in Brazil however she spent most of her UK life working for the hospitality industry. She had a twist into a clerical role 7 years ago after working for an investment bank and she have been doing a diverse range of administrative roles since. She also had some experience with recruitment and HR.
When she is not working she likes spending time with her family and friends. She likes watching series on Netflix as well as spending some time at the gym!
Víctor Carmona
Software Craftsperson
Victor's interest in computer science began when he was very young, a time in which he already liked to investigate and learn how these magic machines were able to work.He started to study this craft in a more professional way when he started a medium course centered around hardware, systems and networks, followed by a superior course about multiplatform development and finally another superior course focused on web development, which he found to be his passion.
On his free time he loves to play video games (mostly role-playing and strategic games), card games, reading books and comics, watching films and TV-shows and learning about computer science or technology in general.
Since she was a child, María enjoyed writing and public speaking, so she felt that a career in Communication was just what she needed to grow professionally and be happy in the process. She is originally from Ecuador, but has also lived in Argentina and currently in Bilbao. She has work experience as a journalist, both in the press and on television, and a career of more than 6 years in different Communication and Marketing departments. She also has an MBA and believes that effective communication and continuous adaptation is the basis of any great project.
When she is not reading, she enjoys long walks and yoga. She has recently discovered that she likes to make desserts and there is nothing she loves more than the sea.
Caio Calisto
Software Craftsperson
Caio started his career in 2011 in São Paulo and has worked in Bank, Startup, Consultancy and Security Technology, mainly with .net. Recently he had opportunities to implement different kinds of solutions with Azure, such as ChatBot.
From the beginning, he became passionate about TDD and clean code. He believes that simplest well-crafted solutions can bring too much value.
In his spare time, Caio enjoys playing classical piano music, practicing swimming and watching tv series.
Nick Choudhry
Software Craftsperson
Nick has 5 years of experience scattered across building API management tools & the Brexit Program. He believes clean code is paramount for producing iterable & sustainable deliverables.
An advocate for a strong collaborative mindset; with a true zest for critical thinking. He believes intercommunication between the engineers and the business is vital. During his career, he has combined a mixture of pragmatic approaches from multiple software engineering paradigms both within the realm of object oriented & functional programming.
He enjoys looking toward the future and propelling past the limits. In his spare time, he researches cryptocurrencies, metaverse along with deep diving into psychology and the human mind.
Rubén has more than 13y experience in the IT industry, working as a consultant (banking and public sector) and also on the other side as a client (utility).
Playing different roles such; SW developer, Team Lead, Transformation Manager, Sr Technical Manager and Head Of Engineering has a clear understanding in how to implement the projects and best practices.
He loves to work with passionate people / teams that help them in order to achieve their aligned objectives. Always trying to find a pragmatic solution for the problems that are in everyday life and never lose his good mood.
When he is not working, he will be doing some sport (running, swimming, gym, surf….), reading something like blockchain, financial things, philosophy… that can help him for personal growth.
Pst! Rubén is an enthusiastic blockchain person, feel free to talk with him about this new industry that will change a lot of things :)
Abdul’s interest in software development started during a graduate finance internship in Beijing, China. It all started from downloading visual studio, out of curiosity, and from there the interest intensified into a passion for software craftsmanship. He very soon realised that software development was the career he wanted for the long run.
He started his career by studying at a bootcamp, which gave him a base platform to begin the learning journey. A year after that, Abdul was able to land his first job with Pelican. It involved the opportunity to hone skills in frontend (Xamarin.Forms), backend (.NET core) and Devops (Azure Devops). This opportunity saw him fully engaged in each aspect of the app under the guidance of some amazingly talented developers, as well as appreciating the full view of the software development lifecycle.
The most recent adventure was with Codat, which allowed him to witness some amazing examples of what DDD looks like in a hugely data intensive environment. Abdul enjoyed gaining new grounds in API development and experiencing tech-leading a greenfield integration project (applying SOLID/CQRS principals). He was also able to further improve his knowledge in azure devops; appreciating the "infrastructure as code" (IAC) approach by creating ARM templates through the use of a functional language such as F#.
Abdul always talks about his love for his career, and it ended up inspiring some of his family members, as well as three of his close friends, to pursue software development. Two of which have now been successful in landing their first jobs in great companies. Writing that first piece of code changed his life for the better, and he always aims to uplift the people around him to feel the same as well.
In his spare time, Abdul likes to blog about his experiences as well as projects he has been involved in or started. He likes to go to the gym during the week, and watching anime or Netflix series during evening or weekends. He's also an Arsenal fan, and loves a good banter about football.
Rita has been developing software for 12 years. She moved to Barcelona to take a Master's Degree and ended up staying there. She started with Java, moved to Scala and Python and even spent sometime managing teams.She loves coding and solving everyday problems through technology.
She is passionate about collaborating and is always eager to tackle new challenges. She joined Codurance's Team because she wanted do things right, deepen her knowledge and increase her Software Craftmanship's skills.Outside work she loves reading and cooking, if only her two little kids would let her do it more often...
Joao Dias
Talent Acquisition Specialist
João started his career 3 years ago and he has worked as a Service Desk Agent, Account Manager and Business Manager. Working as an Account Manager for a Portuguese recruitment start-up company he discovered his true passion was people. To connect and learn from them. He has then moved on becoming a Talent Acquisition Specialist.
João loves to help people reach their potential and objectives. He is always ready to help on solving problems with a positive attitude. Sports are a big part of his life, mainly Football.
Rowan has been a C# developer for around 8 years now, mostly for companies in the security industry. From developing multi-factor authentication software, to working with low level Windows services in order to detect real-time threats using software that runs on over 10 million machines.
Recently he has been learning the intricacies of developing microservices using the Azure cloud platform, helping transition an existing on-prem solution into a cloud environment. He looks forward to expanding his knowledge of cloud architecture, and has a passion for promoting the use of clean code. He has also dabbled in C++ and Python throughout his career.
Outside of work, Rowan continues his love of programming with his personal projects. He also enjoys playing online games with friends, playing Warhammer, and exploring new places with his wife.
Ignacio Gonzalez
Software Craftsperson
Ignacio started as a Java Developer in a company called Ziath where he had the opportunity to learn from 3 awesome senior programmers and a great team. During that time, he developed more interest about technology and software, and started his own small projects.
Interested not only in software but finances and exercising as well he loves to learn. If he is not training at the gym or playing padel, you may find him coding or maybe listening to podcasts while taking a walk. If you need a favour from him, just buy him some coffee, he will be always willing to help.
Ana is part of the People Ops team in Spain and her main role is to find the best talent to join Codurance! She is actively involved in the sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding of candidates, as well as helping with anything that comes her way. Her HR experience is mainly focused on IT consultancies and she enjoys learning new tech concepts every day.
She is very friendly, proactive, and has a great sense of humor! Ana is from Panama but has been living on and off in Spain since 2013 - right now she is based in Madrid.
In her free time, she loves going to the beach, watching history-based movies/series, eating donuts (her favorite dessert), and as a proper Latina, dancing salsa and merengue!
Fane Fonseka
Software Craftsperson
Fane started off his career in advertising doing statistical regression modelling and then moved into a data analyst role. In this role he started using VBA and python to make his job a lot easier and he then made the decision to move into software engineering.
In his first tech role he worked at LexisNexis, a search engine for Legal resources mainly used by solicitors and tax professionals. He worked in the Devops team and then he moved into the engineering team. His main technologies are .NET, React, Terraform, all things AWS and enjoy deploying things into Kubernetes. He also loves to see the team he is in gelling well and having fun while tackling problems.
In his free time, he likes to make drum and bass, white water kayak and when the season is on he tries to get some snowboarding and surfing in.
Pablo learnt programming as a teen fascinated by how video games worked. Always interested in different tech fields, he decided to study telecommunication engineering to enjoy a broader vision over different areas such as electronics, sound and image processing or telematics.
After focusing on programming and web development in particular, he started working for a couple of companies before trying the freelancing experience for some years. He then stoped working to study a master degree in Data Science, joining Codurance after finishing it.
Pablo is always nerding about books and music, and learning how to play several instruments.
Ana is part of the design team in Codurance Spain. She has a background in Communication and Media and started her design career 7 years ago in the south of France.
She then moved to sunny Barcelona where she expanded her studies with a Ux-Ui Design Masters Degree. Outside of the office, she enjoys going to her shakti dance classes and do long walks by the beach.
She is a big fan of Tarantino movies and loves backpacking in Southeast Asia.
Pablo describes himself as a learner. You’ll very likely find him programming at his desk, surrounded by a big pile of unfinished books. He lives in a small city north of Madrid, where he teaches web security and computer forensics at the university as an associate professor. He studied both mathematics and computer science and loves crafting high quality, well tested, usable and maintainable products.
Pablo enjoys good conversations, attending tech conferences and sharing his knowledge with others. He is a curious person and a good listener.In his free time he plays five-a-side indoor soccer, goes running and enjoys sharing time with his loved ones. He also takes pleasure in reading about statistics, AI and science fiction chronicles
Luis Costa
Software Craftsperson
Born in Portugal, Luís just finished his M.Sc. in Computer Science, specialising in the development of secure and reliable enterprise distributed systems. Before arriving at Codurance, he focused his efforts on the development of an innovative approach for the future of the mobility sector, leveraging the core values of privacy, cooperation and interoperability through the use of Blockchain and Cloud Computing technologies.
When he isn't working, you might catch him dreaming up his next athletic endeavour or researching his favourite topics of sport physiology and geology.
Augusto Oliveira
Software Craftsperson
Augusto started developing software 14 years ago, he was always focusing on solving real problems with software that is well organized, secure, scalable, simple to maintain and, of course, that delivers what the client had in mind.
He considers himself highly motivated and creative. In his free time he likes to hang out with friends, play video games, ride his bike and from time to time he just gets offline and takes a break from technology.
Samuel Carslake
Software Craftsperson
Sam’s interest in technology started when he was a teenager with writing Mods for games, he then went on to study Computer Science at University. After graduating he then went to work in the Utility Industry where he stayed for the next 4 years. He worked mainly within the .NET environment along with Databases and Frontend Development.
During his free time he likes to Cycle, walk the dog on the beach and he is currently fully renovating his first house which hasn’t been touched in nearly 40 years doing most of the work himself – including upcycling pallets into garden furniture.
Marco Sacramento
Software Craftsperson
Marco has been tinkering with electronics for as long as he can remember, he was always trying to understand how things work under the hood. This curiosity led him to get a degree in Computer Engineering and he has been working mainly in backend development since. He likes to build scalable and well-structured software and considers himself a quick learner who easily adapts to new concepts and technologies. The main technologies he uses are Node.js, Python, MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
During his free time, he enjoys running, keeping up with the latest tech news, reading fiction books and playing video games.
Danish Javed
Software Craftsperson
Danish started his career from a social media startup in London after completing his BSc in Computer Science. His most recent experience comes from F-Secure/Withsecure in the cyber security industry where he was leading a team building attack surface management solution. He has also amassed knowledge from the Travel, Automotive and Media industries. The first language he learnt was Java. Since then, he has done a lot of PHP, Python, Javascript and some Ruby.
He believes that "building the right it" is just as important as "building it right". Over the last few years, he has experienced a lot of disciplines and has developed a desire to focus on software design as it directly impacts business growth.
Aside from work, he is a dad, he enjoys cooking & BBQing when the north grants us good weather, enjoying a game or two of FIFA and he has been rediscovering cycling.
Fernando Duarte
Software Craftsperson
As a boy Fernando found solace in the world of technology, seeing it as the gateway for the new world age. And when he realised he could build the tools he spent most of his life using, there was no turning back.
Originally from Portugal, with a mindset that’s always open to new challenges, he worked on both the Microsoft environment with .NET and Azure DevOps and open source with Java and React, also worked on both back-end and full-stack, passing by test automation and even some dev-ops. Always making sure the best working solution was found for any given problem.
He has two creative hobbies, those being photography and playing bass. Powerlifting as his physical hobby. And for those days when he just needs to rest, video games and cinema.
Ross Waddell
Software Craftsperson
Ross has been working for the past 10 years developing solutions in the ATM industry including implementing ATM advertising platforms, branding creation and deployment, as well as ATM estate monitoring software.
His latest project was developing a greenfield solution for amalgamating multiple different systems to allow easier management of large ATM estates using Blazor and .NET 5.
Outside of work, Ross enjoys walking with his wife and dog, MMA, playing games with friends (both video and board), and travelling to experience new cuisines and cultures.
Philip Morley
Software Craftsperson
Philip has over 20 years of software development experience. He has worked in many different sectors including government, leisure and tourism, e-commerce, finance, and energy and utilities. Philip has spent a significant part of his career helping organisations to modernise their software platforms and reduce technical debt.
Philip is a keen advocate of pair programming, test driven development and domain driven design. He regularly coaches other developers in these practices and has a passion for clean code.
Philip also has strong DIY skills. In his spare time, he runs a property business. So far he has renovated 5 different houses, transforming them from derelicts into attractive, high quality places to live.
James Mbowa
Software Craftsperson
James Mbowa has been working in software development for over ten years, working with start-ups to enterprise businesses; in various industries and utilising multiple technologies.He has worked on various projects implementing DevOps principles using multiple technologies and is experienced with cloud technologies like Azure and AWS.
However, he specialises in software development and Microsoft technologies like C#.
James enjoys reading technical books on software architecture, DevOps and software development practice and attending meetups to discuss and implement ideas outside of work.
Ralph Tatt
Platform Engineer
Ralph is a platform engineer who has a passion for building software that is maintainable, scalable, and testable. Ralph loves working with automation and monitoring tools to help make development and delivery more efficient.
Ralph is a strong advocate of the principles of DevOps and believes that collaboration between development and operations is essential for building successful software systems. He is also a big proponent of automation and believes that automated testing and deployment should be an integral part of the software development process.
In his spare time, Ralph enjoys reading, going on hikes and playing guitar.
Mauro’s first contact with a computer was at the age of 8 when his father brought home a brand new Commodore 64. It was love at first sight. His first steps into programming were made using the Logo language, then Basic, a little later Pascal at a specialised high school where he started his teaching career right after graduating as a Computer Technician.
While going through his Computer Science studies at University of Buenos Aires he held his part time job as Programming teacher and, after that, he got to work fulltime in more classic roles such as Software Developer, Tech Lead and Architect for private companies of different sizes and industries.
By the year 2015 he started working as an independent PHP Consultant, Trainer and Technical Writer, contributing to several popular online publications.
Currently he maintains his personal blog and his YouTube channel where he shares insights about how to solve common issues PHP developers face.
Stephen Moore
Software Craftsperson
After studying Politics at university, Stephen spent several years working in MI/BI roles, which became increasingly technical. Eventually he made the switch to software development, initially maintaining and developing an ASP.NET MVC application.
Since becoming a developer Stephen has worked in several industries, including finance and international logistics, working mainly with technology centered around C# and JavaScript. He believes strongly in automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and is always looking for ways to reduce friction in the development process. Stephen enjoys learning new technologies and is completely comfortable out of his depth.
In his spare time Stephen enjoys music, reading, hiking and poorly executed DIY projects.
Tiago Oliveira
Software Craftsperson
Tiago is a senior full stack engineer specialised in building clean and scalable websites. With nearly a decade of experience, he has worked as a freelancer, software engineer, and tech/team lead designing and improving different platforms for academic, government, and cultural institutions. He found his passion in frontend development with the React ecosystem.
In his spare time, he loves to experiment with both visual and sound design, playing piano and also playing computer games with his girlfriend.
A lot of his free time is also dedicated to improving his smart home with new automation and tools.
Rachel Lyons
Product Manager
Rachel has worked in product owner positions for just over 6 years in a variety of industries such as healthcare, e-commerce and telecoms. She is a certified Scrum Product Owner and has completed the Prince 2 Agile qualification.
She became a product owner while working in a sales and account management position within a tech startup which has allowed her to always think about the customer and users of what’s being built. She has a strong focus on communication and transparency and loves working with a variety of teams. She has worked on iOS and android apps as well as web-based products and She really enjoys seeing the impact change has!
Outside of work she enjoys a good gym class, socialising with friends and family. She is the organiser amongst her group so always has holiday, hen-do or wedding planning on the go!
Daniel developed an interest in computers at a very young age but did not get his first computer until 1989. While he was studying at the University, Daniel worked as developer in the artificial intelligence department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Here he participated in his first professional development using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual C++.
In 2003, he began to work in the military industry in 2003. He worked as developer, technical leader and software manager with Microsoft technologies for several years (Visual C++, C# .NET). Having joined the Agile world in 2013, he has worked as XP developer, Scrum master, Agile technical coach and Agile coach in several industries (Aeronautical, Education, and Banking) with open source technologies and languages .
Among his favourite ways to learn is to teach. He has been a trainer, coach and mentor in Agile technical practices (MOB Programming, Pair programming, CI/CD, BDD/TDD) and in Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).
When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing the guitar, reading and drinking a good beer with good friends.
María Jesus is an experienced QA with a 14 year career. She studied Computer Engineer and she started to work as Engineer. After some months working as Engineer she found an opportunity to work as a Tester. At this moment she didn’t know anything about quality but she accepted this opportunity. After it she was clear that her career should be continue always around quality role because she love improve they way that the team is working with hight quality.
She love to improve the quality in all the delivery process, not only thinking in test strategy. Because for her we cannot achieve high quality if we don’t have happy customer, good quality code and good quality in the definition of the stories.She has been worked in projects related to health, financial, project management, ecommerce, map, etc. And she has been working with a lot of kind of language and technology. She has worked in desktop app, web, api, mobile app, server platform.She loves to work with all the team (PO, BA, Architecture, Engineer, DevOps, etc) to achieve the best quality in all the process.
She lives in Granada with her family (two children and two dogs), and she loves travelling, music, spend time with her family and friends, walk with her dogs and take care of her plants.
Fernando is a proactive, goal oriented and result driven individual who transitioned from leading infrastructure Teams to leading delivery and management in pursuit of ways to make more impactful changes.
During his career he has successfully planned and delivered cross-organization initiatives, large and complex Programs, led the agile transformation process in some of the largest international companies in IT, helped people from all roles push the quality standards to higher levels and always advocated for equality and inclusiveness.
He is passionate about music & movies, an animal lover and a videogame enthusiast.
David Belshaw
Software Craftsperson
Dave started his software development as an apprentice, eventually going on to complete a BSc (Hons) Digital & Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship. He worked in the public sector for 6 years, developing a range of guidance authoring and information systems. He then moved into a client focused environment, extending enterprise level software including monoliths and Microservices.
He had primarily worked with .NET C#, SQL server, Document databases, JavaScript and jQuery. He is a supporter of the TDD approach, pair programming, and clean code. He enjoys working in a collaborative and supportive environment where he has the freedom to express his opinion and research to further develop his skills.
Outside of work he enjoys keeping fit, TV shows and video games and seeing his friends.
Bruno Mouta
Software Craftsperson
Bruno is a long-time geek, using computers for as long as he can remember. He always liked to play games on the computer, such as Aladdin, Prince of Persia, Doom, Full Throttle and other classics.
He only discovered programming later in life, after joining an engineering course in college and having a programming class that he realised that programming was more interesting than the rest of the course and eventually changed to a Computer Science course and got his first job in the field, mainly dealing with Java, despite Python being his hobby language.
Bruno is also interested in 3d Printing, home automation and he really likes new technologies and new devices.
Simon Shaw
Regional Director
Simon has been working in a range of Project and Programme Delivery roles for over 20 years in industries that include Finance, Healthcare, Education and Professional Services.Simon likes working with teams to deliver great products and services, while helping teams grow and develop.
Simon is always keen to continue learning himself and has recently been developing his understanding of how to apply Agile at scale.
Outside of work, Simon enjoys family time with his two children. He also plays guitar and likes to keep himself fit by running and going to the gym.
Christopher Brown
Software Craftsperson
Chris has spent 12 years in the automotive engineering industry, the last 8 as a C# developer on configuration and control software for vehicle emissions testing. Consolidated functionality from legacy systems worldwide as well as adding new functionality as regulations change and as vehicles themselves have changed. Before that he was doing software projects supporting two manufacturing projects for engines and trucks.
Prior to that Chris spent time as a PHP developer doing in-house projects.
Chris is passionate about football, nowadays playing 5-a-side with friends or going to Arsenal games. Chris also enjoys reading, films and the beach.
Matthew King
Software Craftsperson
Matt started programming at a very young age and found that each time he wrote something that worked, he got a little buzz out of it. Ever since then, he knew what he wanted to do as a career, and has always felt grateful to have been born with a brain that suited programming, as he loves writing well written code, and still feels that little buzz today when working.
He is a big fan of Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and continuous improvement, and the opportunity to work at Codurance felt like the perfect fit.
In his free time he loves good storytelling, enjoying all genres of TV and Movies and Games, and spends a lot of time living vicariously through his sporting heroes, across almost every sport.
Tobias Woollaston
Software Craftsperson
Toby first got involved with building iOS applications for his friends, where he self-taught himself using online resources. This built a passion for learning new technologies and programming languages to build a variety of applications from real-world physic simulations to home automation programs.
His career so far has seen him primarily working with .NET and JavaScript React to build both front and back-end applications.
In his free time, Toby enjoys going hiking and camping with his dog, as well as working on personal projects and learning about the latest physics discoveries.
Jamie Wallace
Software Crafsperson
Jamie’s earliest memories of computing and software involve playing games on the school’s Acorn BBC Micro and Archimedes. Things then got more in depth when using the manual of his Atari ST to figure out how to format and copy floppy disks with just the one drive. He’s since used C, C++, Java and Visual Basic to learn to code throughout school, college and university.
During his 15 years in the industry he has primarily worked with .NET and C# in domains including Petrophysics & Geology, Public Safety & Emergency Services, Pharmaceuticals, Lottery and Mobile. After being introduced to Clean Code and TDD he has since recognised Software Craftsmanship as the true calling for his attention to learning and mastery. He believes that keeping it simple and open to change allows him to create quality software and enjoy doing so at the same time. He gets a second wind out of his enjoyment of learning by teaching it to others.
Outside of software he enjoys spending time with his son, reading and has a keen interest in improving health & fitness through human optimisation and DIY biology. He’s also a blue belt in ITF Taekwondo and competes in Target Archery as a para athlete.
Pedro Faria
Platform Engineer
Curious by nature, Pedro started at a young age in his lifelong journey of "how things are made (and work)" by dismantling (aka reverse engineering) too many good toys. Later in life he started to apply the same curiosity into video games and small programs with his venerable Amiga 500, and that set him on the "how software things are made" tech journey.
With a background studies in Informatics and Computing Engineering his IT career started in the Web side of things in the 2000 ish using LAMP stacks (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php/Perl). From there and over the last 19+ years he worked as Web Developer, Full-stack, Back-end and lately as DevOps, with projects for information systems and software applications in sectors such as Higher Education, Digital Media, IT Services, Telcos, Engineering Tooling and SaaS.
Outside of work, he enjoys reading about Philosophy, Economy, Science & Technology and all in between. When the weather is good, he also enjoys going out with his family for long walks along river sides and cityscapes.
James Mason
Software Craftsperson
James has been a developer for over 10 years and is passionate about building well crafted solutions that provide real world value to users.
Back in 2013, he was exposed to the idea of Domain Driven Design and has since spent his time developing his knowledge of ideas, patterns and processes that favour domain focused software. Having worked on high profile projects for clients such as the NHS and Royal Mail, James is no stranger to projects that require robust and highly scalable software that meets the demands of a wide range of stakeholders.
In his spare time, he enjoys photography, darkroom printing, cycling and adventuring with his wife and children.
Ednilson Martins
Software Craftsperson
Ednilson has over 10 years of working in global projects and international teams, from different areas and fields of activity such as vehicle and equipment inspections; claim processes; risk management; production planning and controlling; e-commerce, and software houses.
He has general knowledge in software development besides the coordination of development teams applying scrum and agile software development methodologies; project management; design thinking; system analysis; data modelling; prototyping and support to the development team based on senior experience on different tech stacks such as C# and Java.
Outside of work he enjoys mountain biking, street running, reading books, and cooking with family.
Adrián is based in Madrid, Spain. He is passionate about the software industry. Since Adrián touched his first computer, he fell in love with computer science, and thus he finally studied Computer Engineering degree to learn about computer foundations and software development.
When finishing his degree, he started working in the software industry. Since then, he found that he likes software design, software architecture, technical practices around software development and readable and maintainable code. In this time, Adrián discovered his passion for technical practices that he found very useful in software development, practices like TDD, refactoring, pair-programming… He is always learning and trying to improve its software development process, and trying to share acquired knowledge with the software community.
Adrián has worked mainly with the following technical stacks: Javascript ecosystem (Node.js, React, Vue.js…) and JVM ecosystem (Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Spring Boot, Spock…). He has worked with several cloud providers too, mainly with AWS.
In his free time, he loves playing video games, playing board games and drawing things (digital and physical). Lastly, but not less important, he loves to share time with his family and friends.
Jacopo is a UX designer with a strong focus on users and their interactions with technology. He started his studies in Florence and continued in London, where he lived and worked for about five years. Recently he moved to Barcelona with his two cats, attracted by the high-tech demand and, of course, the beaches.His interests in technology are not limited to traditional websites and applications.
His vision of the future involves many vocal assistants, augmented, virtual reality, and a bunch of things that most likely don’t exist yet. The Future is exiting!
Feel free to reach out in English, Spanish, or Italian. He is still working on his French skills.
Benjamin Lambert
Software Craftsperson
Ben is a full stack developer with over 28 years of experience. However, he wrote his first program long before that, when he was 4, on a Nascom 2 computer. He loves to learn and be challenged and always wants to put quality first, believing in the principles of software craftsmanship.
He has worked as a software consultant for most of his career, working in both the .NET and JAVA stacks for varied clients from many different areas of business, from small businesses to NHS trusts and the UK Home Office.
Outside of work, he enjoys photography, hiking, gaming, amateur theatre and music (both playing and listening to). He is also a Cub Scout leader because he believes in giving back to the next generation.
Mike van Oorschot
Software Craftsperson
Mike’s first exposure to computers was at school when the (only) BBC Micro was wheeled out of a store cupboard on a large bespoke wooden trolley. Sessions of bashing in lines of Basic soon got longer and more frequent as a ZX Spectrum arrived at home; breaks were only taken to listen to the beeps and burps of loading games like Saboteur! from the external cassette player.
He was obviously hooked by then and after completing a Computer Science degree his 20+ years professional experience has allowed him to work in a variety of sectors including telecoms, government/public sector, digital media/marketing, automotive, social services and financial services.
Mike’s early coding experience was in Basic, C, Pascal, Clipper, Delphi and Visual Basic but since the advent of C# and Microsoft .NET he has specialised in solutions built on this stack. He is a strong believer in “doing things right” and employs good software practices and design, understanding the customer domain and their needs, continuous learning and great teamwork!
Outside of work Mike enjoys cycling and walking, watching sports and learning more about history and architecture.
Lucia is Organisational Consultant at Codurance Spain and her main role is to support the development of the organisation focusing on training activities, leadership performance and transformation.
Lucia is from Argentina, she studied Business Administration and has 10 years of experience working in multinational organisations both in Argentina and abroad. During this time she has been part of commercial, planning, finance and change management areas, which allows her today to have a holistic visión of organisations.
Her passion for people development let her to expand her studies with a Postgraduate Personal and Executive Coaching degree and Team Coaching courses in Spain.
She is also a sport lover and in addition to practicing them, Lucia specialised in Sport Mental Coaching. Her curiosity for the new and different and her passion for people and culture, led her to live and work in Germany and Spain (two times).
Daniel Russom
Software Craftsperson
Daniel has been working as a full-stack developer since graduating university in 2018. Prior to joining Codurance, they worked on financial systems with a key focus on automating existing processes.
Their passion is to see continual improvements in their skillset, and to build reliable code. This comes with a desire to optimise their time management techniques in order to achieve these efficiently.
In their spare time they enjoy working in the garden, practicing guitar, working on side projects, or playing with their cat.
Irene discovered programming while studying Mathematics in university, and it was something she became passionate about. She went through a bootcamp to specialise as a Typescript full-stack developer. She is very interested in performance, frontend architecture and automatising processes. In her free time she enjoys hiking, cats, eating good food, playing video games and buying books she doesn't read.
Andrés started tinkering with PCs and other devices as a kid, getting into everything related to IT and enjoying every part of it. He focused his studies to eventually specialize in the sector. At the age of 18, he started his studies in Software Development, and by 2020, he started working in what he always wanted to.
His main focus was Python and JS, but he has also had experience with Java and PHP/Symfony, and many other auxiliary techs.
His main objective is to help make software for the future, and create an ever-growing, safe and positive web, sustained by user-friendly interfaces and experiences that will adapt to the new winds of time.
Retrocomputing is one of his hobbies, and putting his hands into anything from the 70s,80s and 90s will make his eyes glow in green phospor.
Sean Johnston
Software Craftsperson
Sean has been a C# developer for almost 10 years, getting his start after learning to code during a Film and Visual Effects degree and building games in Unity. His career has seen him work for the NHS, RBS, Experian and Royal Mail. Over time, he has focused on the idea of building robust, high-quality software and appreciates deliberate approaches like Test Driven Design and Domain Driven Design.
He lives with his wife and two rescue cats in Nottingham. For fun, he's slowly studying Spanish and learning to play the guitar. He also enjoys both playing and making games, and digital photography.
Tiago Bica
Software Craftsperson
Tiago is a Software Engineer with 20 years of experience mainly in the Air Traffic Management area having the pleasure to participate in the conception and implementation of several critical systems. He speaks Java, but loves to learn other languages and platforms and always aims to use the best practices, methodologies and tools. Tiago loves order, clarity and simplicity. He pursues peaceful relationships built on empathy and respect.
Tiago feels complete with his wife, reading the Bible and volunteering. He loves to travel and discover new landscapes to remember in photos. He builds healthy living habits and exercises regularly. His hobbies include reading and playing piano.
Peter Stensones
Software Craftsperson
Pete started coding way back in the mists of time on a Sinclair ZX-81. Back then this meant learning BASIC by typing in magazine listings and fixing the code till it worked! Various personal computers later he learnt a little Z80 assembly, Forth, Pascal, C, 68000 Assembly along the way. Software wise university (a Physics degree) taught him FORTRAN 77 and more C. It was at university that he realised he could actually get a job doing his hobby, and so at the post-graduation he began a career in software development.
He began developing and supporting commercial software on DEC minicomputers in DIBOL/DBL & Synergex, with a sprinkle of C, BLISS and MACRO. He progressed to writing PC based mission critical software for various agencies and emergency services in Delphi before discovering .NET and C#. All this was under a very traditional, tender driven, waterfall SDLC. Subsequently he experienced a corporate Agile transformation to SCRUM with a fair few of the XP practices. So the joys of CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and BDD. That was a watershed moment for him.
Recent projects allowed him to learn .NET Core, WPF, HTML5/SCSS, TypeScript, Angular, and a few of the myriad parts of Azure. That’s the joy of software, there is always something new to learn, and better ways to craft software to be discovered. He loves learning new tech, and he loves teaching others about it too.
In his spare time he is a dog parent of two rescue greyhounds, a keen digital photographer, and a SCUBA diver; assuming the water is hot enough!
Antony Scott
Software Craftsperson
Antony has been interested in computers since the 8-bit days. After the family bought a Dragon 32, he never looked back, preferring to write software rather than play games. Teaching himself BASIC before moving on to a PC using Pascal, C & eventually C++. Moving in to software development as a profession after studying Computing Science at Staffordshire University. Since then, he has worked in the workforce management, logistics and sustainability sectors mainly with Microsoft technologies. A keen advocate of TDD, pair programming and clean code he enjoys the craft of creating software.
Outside of work he enjoys working on side projects, watching movies (at the local cinema but more often in his own home cinema), PC gaming, going to the gym with his son and walking the 4th member of the family, Rolo.
David O'Brien
Principal Software Craftsperson
David wanted to work with computers from an early age when he was first introduced to a BBC Micro. After reading for a Batchelor’s degree in Software Engineering he worked in a broad range of industries across a variety of roles, wearing many hats including analyst, engineer, architect, scrum master, agile coach, and engineering manager. He is passionate about working with committed teams to deliver high quality solutions.
Outside work, he is a regular attendee at his local gym, loves to cook (and eat!) and is an avid reader who enjoys spending time with his wife and son.
Florence Idowu
Administrative Assistant
Florence is a female in STEM, who believes life is better with a to-do-list, but with the occasional spontaneity and a pinch of chaos thrown in. She has previous experience being an Administrator and as a financial manager.
She loves all things food; exploring cultures one bite at a time. She enjoys reading, travelling and capturing moments for future memories; a true adventure aficionado.
Valeria joined the Codurance team as a Junior Marketing Specialist in lively Madrid. She studied Communications and Digital Culture and is currently pursuing a Master's program in Digital Marketing. Although she grew up in Venezuela, she moved to the United States in her teen years and later on moved again to Italy with her family. Thanks to these experiences, she values working in different international environments, learning about other cultures and facing new challenges.
In her free time Valeria loves to travel, lift weights, discover new healthy and sustainable practices, and do outdoor activities - as well as spending time with the people she loves of course!
Carlo Carrara
Principal Software Craftsperson
Carlo started with a 486 when he was 14, and during university he managed to install a Slackware Linux on it.
He started with Java at the university in 1997, training on distributed applications. From there, enterprise applications was his main duty, then enterprise portals, SOA and custom search engines.
Today he is architecting cloud solutions for automotive, oil & gas, energy and other markets, helping customers to renew their infrastructure in a non-disruptive way.
Outside of the working hours he is a father who loves to play guitar, go skiing on Alps and go camping in the summer.
Nahuel was always amazed by the potential that computers had. Even though his studies were in chemistry, he kept the IT world as a long-running hobby until it finally developed into a full-blown career.
He had the privilege to work for several companies from which he learnt to operate multiple technology stacks and adapt them to their business needs.
Although he enjoys working and playing with numerous IT tools, he recently discovered a special one on which he decided to focus for an indefinite period, Kubernetes. This naturally came accompanied by numerous methodologies such as DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, cloud computing and more with which he broadened his skillset.
Nowadays he centres his attention on these emerging fields trying to gain as much knowledge as possible, for this is not just a job for him but something he also enjoys as a pastime.
Whenever he has some free time, he will most likely be trying out some interesting new software for all the gadgets in his rack, that is if he is not outside relishing Barcelona's mountains with his motorbike.
Valentina Soricaro
People Partner
Val is originally from Italy and has been working in Human Resources for around 5 years. Starting as a Payroll Supervisor with a lot of knowledge of employment law she then decided to take a further step and get her CIPD Level 5 qualification to become a proper HR professional and really dive into the People/HR world.
She is passionate about humans and loves companies with a strong inclusive culture.
Before Codurance she has been working in the retail sector and the tech sector, but always within the "start-up" environment.
Val is also a singer/songwriter and producer and she has her own project and you can find her on Spotify and all the major music distributor under the name Valentina Reptile. If you love electronic music, you should definitely give it a go; before going solo you could spot her touring around UK with her tech-metal band "Hieroglyph".
Her everyday mecca after work is the gym, and that is pretty much where you can find her every day after work, or at dance classes (mainly hip/hop, dancehall, afro).
Sergio is a software developer with a strong background in mobile app development and over five years of industry experience. He is skilled in a wide range of technologies and is known for his ability to make well-informed decisions about technology choices, his skill in developing robust architectures, and his ability to effectively lead and manage development teams. Sergio values clear communication and teamwork, and is committed to creating a positive and productive work environment.
In his free time, he enjoys listening to rap music, participating in physical activity, spending time in nature, and playing board games with his daughter.
Javier is a web developer since 2019 with a strong background in mathematics. He has worked on Public Administration and Mass Transportation projects and has varied experience outside of the software industry.Always seeking self-improvement, his software interests gravitated towards the pragmatic practices of Extreme Programming, Continuous Delivery and TDD.His main hobbies are animated films, competitive games, popular science, and urban planning. Again resonating with the idea that an efficient use of our resources leaves us more time and energy to spend with our loved ones and seek a fulfilling life.
Elena started discovering programming while studying IT at the university. Her first job was at a firm that develops high-load DLP systems. She started as a C++ developer, but expanded her knowledge and got acquainted with full-stack development and web development, fell in love with working with databases. She is passionate about discovering and learning new technologies.
Outside of work, Elena enjoys doing sport like box or riding a bike. Also, she loves to travel, read books, play board games, spend time with family and friends.
Helder is a pragmatic person always looking to help teams create software products that offer value to their consumers. He loves the daily challenges that Codurance offers him, expanding his existing knowledge and experience, allowing him to constantly grow as a human being and as a professional. He firmly believes that the correct results of a team go through both a good understanding of the human aspect and also a strong purpose that unites the people who make it up and guides their path.
During his professional career, he has had the opportunity to be an analyst, designer, developer, architect, product owner, manager, coach, mentor, company founder, and community organizer. In his spare time he enjoys nature walks, music and painting.
Christian Oram
Bid Manager
Following an academic background in Government & Public Policy, Christian has spent the last 25 years securing public sector contracts for software development and SAAS companies, providing solutions to local / national government, criminal justice and public health organisations.
This has involved extensive work with government agencies across the UK, USA and Europe.
In addition to his career at Codurance, Christian enjoys spending time with his family and looking after his classic Triumph (government built!) sports-car.
Ismael defines himself as a software craftsperson eager to keep learning different ways to solve problems. After having worked previously in a startup, he knows how to wear many hats although he actually loves to get his hands dirty writing code and playing with new tools.
When he is not working he tries to spend time doing some sport (basketball or running) and also playing tabletop games.
Aarón Pérez
Software Craftsperson
Aarón is a Software Developer from Tenerife who has a passion for learning and improving his craft. He is deeply committed to creating software that is not only functional, but also maintainable and scalable. Also, Aarón believes that software should not only be functional but also well-organized and easy to read so he has a strong focus on readability and follows good practices such as TDD, SOLID, and Clean Code.
Aarón has primarily worked on the backend side of development, specifically in the NodeJS environment, but he's always eager to tackle new challenges. When he's not coding, you can find him indulging in his other passion - games. Whether it's video games or tabletop games, Aarón is always up for a good time.
Jennifer Torquato
Engagement Manager
Jennifer is an enthusiastic and focused Engagement manager with 10+ years experience within service delivery and IT project management. Her main strengths are client relationship management, problem solving and driving projects/company goals from start to finish at the highest standard to ensure excellent customer satisfaction and long term collaborations. She loves finding solutions to every challenge. Jennifer takes pride in her work and also values work/life balance.
In her free time her top priority is spending quality time with her husband and their two sons (preferably by the beach). She also enjoys reading books based on true stories, learning about child psychology and practising yoga.
Álvaro Arribas
Organisational Consultant
Álvaro is from Burgos, but he has been living in Madrid for 16 years. Álvaro is a single father of a 10 years old daughter and loves spending time with her. Other passions of Álvaro are playing football (he has been doing it for +30 years), travelling and enjoying music festivals (techno and heavy metal ones) jumping into mosh pits & walls of death.
Álvaro is an organisational consultant at Codurance Spain. Some of his main responsibilities are to support the development and transformation of the organisations, training activities, leadership, performance and engineering effectiveness. Álvaro has more than 17 years of experience at different levels, from a developer position to a program director of an on-premise security solution that has been installed in many countries around the world.
All these different kinds of experiences allow Álvaro to be a highly committed professional, combining strategy, design and technology to deliver extraordinary experiences on digital transformation solutions to customers. Álvaro is results-oriented, enjoys driving large and complex projects at national and international level, and managing a talented team to increase business value. He loves managing key programmes within the company that require direct reporting to C-level.
Ina Kolarova
Agile Delivery Manager
Ina is a collaborative and enthusiastic Agile Delivery Manager with over 8 years of experience in IT Projects Management. She worked with challenging clients from Europe and the USA and helped cross-functional teams self-organize and achieve exceptional results.
Her dedication and commitment to excellence are unmatched. She is a self-starter and a continuous learner. Her greatest strengths include client relationship management, team leadership, proactivity, creative problem-solving, empathy, integrity, and flexibility.
Outside work, Ina enjoys traveling and experiencing new places and cultures, bicycle riding, swimming, reading, and listening to various music genres. She loves nature, hot summer days with plenty of sunshine (preferably on the beach), and cats.
Daida Medina
Software Craftsperson
Daida is a software developer with a strong focus on delivering value to customers. She has worked with dynamic languages such as Javascript or Ruby and static ones, like Typescript or Java. As a Craftsmanship fan, she joined Codurance looking for an environment where she could constantly learn surrounded by a passionate team that feels like home.
Based in Gran Canaria, when not working, she will be at the beach, playing pádel or designing some DIY for her home.
Yassin Oukhiar
Agile Delivery Manager
Yassin joined Codurance as an Agile Delivery Manager. For him, it’s all about sharing the journey with the teams, helping them in any way possible, and ultimately satisfying our clients needs.
He started his career as a developer, for seven years. Eventually, he became intrigued by what makes some teams perform better than others, and that led him to transition to Scrum Mastering and Agile coaching which is passionate about.
Originally from Morocco, Yassin moved to Spain at the age of 19 and has been living there ever since. Although he misses the sea, he enjoys living in the north of Madrid where he can explore the outdoors through trail running. He also enjoys watching movies and learning about psychology and personal development, he is a certified coach.
But above all, Yassin is a proud father of a baby girl and tries his best to balance his personal and professional life.
Dotun Onabanjo
Business Analyst
Dotun is a skilled business analyst at Codurance, leading transformations and solving complex business issues with data-driven solutions. She thoroughly understands industry standards and is always searching for new and creative ways to stay ahead. She adeptly communicates complex concepts to stakeholders, fostering robust relationships and earning their unwavering trust.
Beyond her professional life, Dotun is a passionate traveler and fitness enthusiast. She loves exploring new destinations, trying different cuisines, and immersing herself in diverse cultures.
Moisés was born with a computer under his arm. Since he was a child, he was in love with technology, always glued to a screen, breaking things and (almost always) fixing them.
Life led him to study Physiotherapy, as well as an MSc. However, he never lost his interest in tech. Finally, he decided to quit his job to train and specialise as a Typescript Full-Stack developer through a bootcamp.
He is passionate about coding, cloud computing, software architecture and anything that challenges him. In his spare time he loves practising sports (as long as it doesn't involve a ball), video games, rubik puzzles and reading fantasy books.
Brice Morrow
Business Development Manager
Brice has been in technology for the last 7 years. He started his journey around Cloud Transformation and Security helping organisations to transition to public Cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.
Following on from that he moved into Digital and Business transformation and assisting larger organisations reach their transformation ambitions within an ever changing, fast developing industry.
He is a big music and sport lover and tries to stay active. In his spare time he can be found DJ'ing, Snowboarding, climbing, playing football, going to festivals or catching a football game!
Arturo Menéndez
Software Craftsperson
Arturo is an Industrial Engineer who also went through different fields like hospitality positions or writing articles about the Bundesliga, where he got exposure to different problem solving situations. That was before he found the passion for developing software and the ecosystem of skills and knowledge involved.
He started in a self-taught way with books and courses, and then he joined a bootcamp. These learnings and the experiences gained have made him value well-crafted work and being always willing to keep growing and continuously learning. He enjoys trying things out of his comfort zone, which in the past helped him find new ways and overcome challenges that improved his career path.
He particularly enjoys collaborative analysis and understanding what is in front of the team and what to do next, considering potential dependencies. Through those stages, he experienced several times why the culture of continuous learning is so important.
Outside of work, you will find Arturo spending time with his cats, cycling or hiking through the Galician countryside, playing video games, cooking, or growing vegetables in his garden. And all this with some music playing in the background.
Meet Kevin, a lifelong learner, food enthusiast, music enthusiast, and advocate for inclusive design. With a thirst for knowledge and a passion for creating solutions that are both functional and accessible, Kevin brings a unique perspective to his work whilst listening to indie bands (some that he found that same morning probably).
As a self-driven learner, Kevin is always seeking out new opportunities to expand his skill set and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in his field.
Outside of his work as a developer, Kevin is known for his warm and approachable nature. He is always willing to share his knowledge and experience with others and is committed to building a supportive and inclusive community.
Overall, Kevin is a dynamic and dedicated individual who is committed to making a positive impact through his work and his love of learning and food.
Claudio Teixeira
Country Manager for US
Claudio joined Codurance with a mission to structure and grow the US operation.
His career started at the age of 15 when he enrolled in a "technical high school" with a major in Programming. These schools, which are very popular in Brazil, aim to expedite the entry of new workers into the market. At the age of 17, Claudio was hired as a "Webmaster." From the early days of the "black and white" Internet to the present, Claudio has had the opportunity to work in a variety of positions.
He has worked as an architect in diverse environments and industries, taught Java at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, spoken at numerous events in Brazil and the US, and played a key role in the creation of the world's largest Java community (SouJava). Additionally, he had a season as a senior consultant in London.
Upon returning to Brazil, Claudio took on more roles in operations and business development, helping companies expand their businesses throughout the Americas. Finally, in 2016, he embraced his entrepreneurial side and co-founded a startup focused on process analysis and automation, which continues to thrive today.
Charles Parmentier
Senior UI/UX Designer
Charlie’s journey as a designer began about 12 years ago by first learning HTML & CSS at the time, as he had a keen interest in building web pages initially, before turning his attention to the craft of design itself.
Throughout his career, he’s developed and honed a wide range of skills (from graphic and visual design, typography, animations & interaction design, brand identity, UI/UX and Product design).Originally from France (Paris born and bred - no pun intended), Charlie moved to the UK many moons ago to the great bewilderment of his wider family back home.
Outside of the design world, he loves spending time with his two young kids, fitness and doing sports activities (mostly tennis, football and skiing), cooking, and following his beloved Arsenal.
Miquel is an experienced Product Manager with expertise in creating and managing high-complexity products. With more than 7 years of experience as a Product Manager, he worked in a wide variety of industries and projects, from legal and advisory to cloud services and music distribution.
His career spans managing from internal platforms to business-critical and customer-centric products. Founder of some tech startups, Miquel's strategic leadership is driven by a strong foundation in Computer Science Engineering, providing him with a solid foundation for his career in technology and Product Management.
Outside of his professional life, Miquel is a nature and animal enthusiast who enjoys living in a small town in Girona. His free time is often spent running in the mountains, swimming, and playing with his three beloved cats.
Passionate about literature and books, Patricia knew from an early age that journalism and communication were her paths. As a Venezuelan who spent half of her childhood in South Korea and now resides in Madrid, she draws upon her experiences and creativity to craft content that adds value to the community.
Having worked in social media for the past eight years, connecting with the audience is a great passion for her. She says, "If my content helps even just one person, I feel fulfilled."
In her free time, she enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends, going for runs, and connecting with the fresh air of nature. Reading about marketing and personal growth is a hobby that keeps her up to date with her knowledge and emotions.
Eduardo Skinner
Product Manager
Eduardo has joined Codurance in Spain after 17 years working in London.
During his time in the UK he has worked in organisations focused on health and wellbeing and the charity sector.
He has gone through a long journey in the digital world that eventually led him to Product Management about 10 years ago
Half a Brit and half a Spaniard he is as comfortable dipping his knife into a pot of Marmite as he is making a Spanish omelette (with onion and red peppers please).
Eduardo has a curious mind that is constantly getting him into all kinds of hobbies but his main true passion is photography, a craft to which he has dedicated many years. In his spare time he likes playing computer games (DOTA) and being with his wife and cat.
Auwlyee is an Industrial engineer that brings over 15 years of experience to the table, with a diverse portfolio spanning various sectors such as Project Management Consulting, Agile Consulting, Technology, Politics, Banking, Web Development, Automotive, and Telecommunications. Specializing in being the crucial conduit between clients and teams, my mission is to ensure project success through optimal time, budget, and product management, all while delivering unmatched customer service.
Well-versed in requirements gathering, timeline management, budgeting, and task assignment and follow-up, my expertise extends to conducting effective negotiations, facilitating training, and diligently documenting implementations. I employ diverse work frameworks including Scrum, Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Waterfall to enhance, optimize, and develop working capabilities. As I aspire to progress as an Agile Coach and Change Manager, my focus remains steadfast on making a positive impact and collaboratively exploring potential labor solutions.
Auwlyee also has a passion for paddle surfing, sewing his own designs, playing video games, and going out and enjoying traveling the world.
Andrés has been a QA since the beginning of his career after finding that Quality was his passion during his Master’s Internship. He always enjoyed all the quality processes involved in software development and how having high quality standards in the team does not only impacts code quality and development performance but also how the product is received by the customer, since quality is not having a bug free product but having a product that satisfies the customer in all its needs.
He has worked in multiple projects, mainly health and financial applications and always working closely with the whole team like PO, Developers, DevOps and also supporting and helping the client whenever they needed assistance with product issues. He uses a wide variety of tools and programming languages in a different variety of app frameworks (desktop, web, api) and enjoys learning new technologies and the challenge that poses.
In his free time he enjoys various activities like cooking new recipes from all over the world, playing music, reading, playing games.. But above all what he enjoys most is playing and spending time with his two dogs.
Domicio Medeiros
Software Craftsperson
With over 14 years of experience in the dynamic world of software engineering and cloud architecture, John is passionate about crafting digital solutions that drive innovation. His journey in the tech realm began at the age of 15 when he delved into programming, kick-starting my lifelong love affair with code. His expertise lies in software architecture and cloud solutions, particularly within the AWS ecosystem. Throughout his career, he had the privilege of collaborating with diverse clients, helping them elevate their systems' performance to new heights.
Key Highlights:
-Spearheaded system performance improvements for clients through the strategic implementation of cutting-edge technologies like Scala and Akka.
-Leveraged the full potential of AWS cloud, embracing horizontal scaling and other advanced features to optimize infrastructure.
- Continuously honing his skills and knowledge in software development, ensuring that he stays at the forefront of industry trends.
When he is not architecting software solutions, he’s indulging his love for programming as a hobby, diving into new projects and challenges. Beyond the digital world, he thrives in the competitive arena of fighting games and has a particular passion for the world of Dark Souls.
Andre Alcantara
Business Developer
Andre started his career as a Developer at 15 years old. He enrolled on a technical high school, with a major in Programming. At 17 years old he was hired to create systems for a big shipping company worldwide and started his tech career there. All those backgrounds crafted Andre as a very consultive Salesperson in the global market, working always to reach their goals and bringing expertise and vision to the companies where he worked.
Andre has a very large experience in the international market, where he helped several companies in expand their business from Brazil around North America (lived there for 6 years in total), Europe, and others.
He had started his MBA in International Business in August 2023.
He is married, has three dogs, and is passionate about Harley Davidson, jiu-jitsu and Crossfit.
Augusto Almeida
Software Craftsperson
Augusto's journey into the world of technology began at a young age, sparked by an innate curiosity about how things functioned. This fascination grew into a lifelong passion, driving him to pursue a career in back-end software development, working with conversational commerce for several companies from different sectors in Brazil.
Augusto enjoys indulging in his diverse interests during his leisure time. Whether it's exploring the intricate narratives of movies and series or immersing himself in the interactive worlds of video games.
William Lima
Software Craftsperson
William has been immersed in the world of software development for a solid 15 years. Throughout his career, he has primarily specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), where his focus has been on conducting data-rich analyses and creating user-friendly data presentations.
His professional journey has traversed a variety of industries, including electrical engineering, telecommunications, government, public safety, utilities, and others like the restaurant sector. In recent years, he has taken on roles as a tech lead and product manager, providing him with valuable insights into leadership and project management. He had the opportunity to contribute on a global scale and adapt to diverse cultural contexts. Additionally, he delved into solution design and architecture, emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive approach to software development. His technical skill set encompasses a wide range of technologies, with particular expertise in .NET and Angular. He is genuinely enthusiastic about staying abreast of emerging technologies and market trends, as the tech landscape is continually evolving. Throughout his career, his primary goal has always been to prioritize customer and user satisfaction. He is committed to continuous learning, and he approaches every challenge with dedication and a sense of responsibility.
Beyond his professional pursuits, he finds joy in life's simple pleasures, such as the beach, music, and savouring a barbecue while enjoying some samba melodies. He actively practices Muay Thai and weightlifting and has an enduring passion for football.
Matthew Hill
Business Analyst
Matt has been working as a Business Analyst for the last 7 years, with most of his experience being spent on projects related to migrations from legacy systems, data management and software development.
The main thing that attracted him to becoming a Business Analyst was the opportunity to work with different stakeholders to really try and fix their issues.
In his spare time, he’s a huge fan of travelling, watching Formula 1, playing bass guitar and playing various RPGs and other games.
Alfredo Ackermann
Software Craftsperson
Alfredo, a coding enthusiast who embarked on his coding journey in 2005, has a track record of delivering innovative solutions and providing technical leadership. His expertise primarily lies in .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, and AWS, encompassing software development, backend systems design, database management, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices.
He thrives on the principles of craftsmanship, embraces XP practices, and continually seeks self-improvement, dedicating himself to learning a new programming language each year.
Beyond the coding world, Alfredo enjoys reading science fiction books, cycling through scenic routes, and cherishing moments with his family. His dedication to both his tech-driven pursuits and the people he cares about makes him a well-rounded individual in both his professional and personal life.
Heitor Maffra
Software Craftsperson
Always passionate about technology, Heitor first started doing network and computer maintenance but he only found himself when he started coding.
He started it very early, doing a lot of courses in the field. He worked in a variety of industries, such as financial services, logistics, e-commerce, legal software, etc. He has been working with .NET frameworks in the backend with Angular for the front end.
In his free time, he enjoys playing the drums, video games, listening to rock music and going to concerts. He loves his cats!
Miguel Fernández
Software Craftsperson
Joaquín is a tech enthusiast who loves getting dirty under whatever programmable or cramping projects. With more than ten years of experience, he has been working for the Spanish Public Administration and some startups, mainly dealing with PHP, Laravel, large databases, and IoT. He is now a Software Craftsperson (S2).
During his spare time, Joaquín manages some big projects with the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena: The Teleco LAN Party and the UPCT Esports. Both activities focused on students and their development as future engineers, sharing his passion for coding and new technologies and tutoring students to prepare them for the professional world.
Jordi Grados
Software Craftsperson
Jordi began his academic journey in journalism, but it wasn't long before he discovered his true passion lay in the realm of software development. This self-revelation led him to transition into technology, where he has since dedicated his career to software programming. His hands-on approach and relentless pursuit of knowledge allowed him to swiftly integrate into the tech industry, where he has been a significant contributor ever since.
Outside of programming, he enjoys delving into video games, spending quality time with his pets, and staying abreast of economic trends.
Pablo Suazo
Platform Engineer
Pablo is a Platform Engineer who loves designing and building scalable, reliable and maintainable systems. Since he was young he enjoyed learning how things work. He likes to analyze and improve all sorts of things, from software to hardware.
He studied Computer Engineering and he was working as a developer at the beginning, as a Systems Integrator later and ultimately he is focused in the cloud and containers. The last few years he has been working mainly in GCP but he knows his way in AWS. He loves trying new tools, automating everything and making sure everything is working the way it should.
Besides his work, Pablo enjoys going hiking in the mountains or along the coast. He loves being outdoors, so swimming, relaxing on the beach or scuba diving are some of his favorite activities. At home, he enjoys cooking, reading, playing casual games and taking care of the plants on his terrace. Also, he loves dancing in festivals during the summer.
David Stevenson
Business Development Manager
A former professional footballer turned sales professional. David is entering his 12th year in technology.
He has worked across several sectors including Sports, Media, Retail and Financial Services. David has built a strong network in Manchester and runs many networking events throughout the year.
Outside of work, David is a keen golfer and loves being outdoors. On a Saturday you will find him at his local rugby club
Paulo Reis
Software Craftsperson
Paulo is a software engineer since the age of 14, winner of the Brazilian federal government national programming hackathon. Enthusiast of the best technologies on the market, always passionate about solving problems. He began programming by self-teaching through online resources and practical experience.
Paulo has worked as a Full Stack software engineer, developing financial software solutions for clients in LATAM using .Net and React with AWS, and gained experience developing and scaling high-demand systems. During his time as a web developer, he primarily utilized .Net and Javascript with Node and React. Additionally, he worked extensively with AWS for cloud computing.He is always looking for new opportunities to learn about areas of the tech ecosystem such as DevOps, system design, good development practices, and learning new programming languages like Java and Go. His goal is to continuously learn and contribute across various areas of software development, always towards the next level.
In his free time, he enjoys going to the gym, playing soccer, video games, and listening to music.
Robert Bartley
Platform Engineer
Rob started his journey in technology and programming in 1998, with early coding experiences in Microsoft Access and VB6. He later transitioned into web design and architecture, continually adapting to the evolving digital landscape.
Juliany Bulian
Junior Talent Acquisition
Juliany is passionate about exploring different cultures. She was born in Brazil and currently resides in Portugal.
Previously, she lived in Australia for almost three years where she studied to become a chef. Her most recent job was in the commercial area as a patient manager in a dental clinic. In Brazil, Juliany received training as a nurse and went on to complete her post-graduation in the same field.
During her free time, she enjoys spending quality time with her husband and dog, indulging in various cuisines, and travelling to new places to explore different cultures.
David Halewood
Software Craftsperson
David is a former Outdoor Educator who spent his time encouraging teens to disconnect from technology and reconnect with nature. His career change a little over 6 years ago to Software Engineer is an irony not lost on him.
David has always enjoyed solving real problems that make a difference. Professionally that involves writing code, specializing in building scalable, user-centric applications across multiple languages and frameworks whilst driving quality and engineering excellence in his teams. He is passionate about crafting impactful software solutions featuring intuitive and joyful interfaces. His proficiency in absorbing domain context allows him to excel in translating business objectives into effective engineering initiatives.
In his spare time, David is an avid reader, average gamer, part-time runner and a frustrated musician. He is also handy in a pub quiz, has yet to run out of puns and is currently learning French.
Julian Rivero
Business Analyst
Julian emerges as a seasoned professional, boasting over a decade of experience in business analysis and project management, particularly in the dynamic realm of digital transformation projects, SDLC and Agile methodologies. Holding the esteemed designation of a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Julian is not only a seasoned professional but also a results-driven leader, demonstrating a remarkable ability to maintain a high-level perspective while effortlessly delving into intricate details when required.
Known for his expertise to successfully collaborate and inspire multi-cultural teams while driving excellence is evident in his track record, from international endeavours to a diverse range of industries including retail, e-commerce, finance, utilities, technology, real estate, logistics, service, and consumer goods. He leads by example and is recognized for driving change and delivering results. Strategic, progressive thinker and creative problem-solver that thrives on new challenges. Committed to continuous learning and professional growth.
Outside of the professional sphere, Julian is a chess enthusiast, avid reader and traveller, and he actively engages in philosophical discussions, adding a layer of intellectual depth to his pursuits. On the other hand, his commitment to personal well-being extends to a holistic approach, incorporating fitness and meditation into his routine.
Rafael Magalhaes
Software Craftsperson
Rafael has been fascinated with computers since he was a child. When he first saw a computer and typed letters on MS Word 95, and saw those letters on the screen, it felt like magic to him
During college, he studied Computer Science and has worked mainly on the front end with React and Vue. Rafael has worked in a wide variety of businesses including telecommunications, education, banks, and software houses.
As a skilled developer, Rafael always strives to deliver business value by writing quality code. He is a team player who is always willing to help.
Kaique Borges
Software Craftsperson
Kaique was always fascinated by computers. At 14, his desire to customize his blog’s layout led him to web development and design, a passion he cultivated and is constantly improving.
At university, he was introduced to Extreme Programming but only understood its significance after delving into software design later on. He began practising Test-Driven Development outside of work and discovered software craftsmanship, a term that aligned closely with his beliefs on software development. Alongside his programming journey, Kaique developed a passion for UI/UX design, philosophy, science, and human behaviour.
Outside of work, he enjoys playing the guitar, reading books, playing and watching football, writing, and learning new things.
Lluis Fontanella Borras
Agile Delivery Manager
Lluis is an enthusiastic Agile Delivery Manager, focused on building great dynamics inside the team and between team and client. His ultimate goal is being helpful for client and team.
He has a degree in Biotechnology, but soon discovered that laboratories and PhD wasn't his thing. Due to the nature of computer science in Biotechnology he had the opportunity to work 5 years as a Developer, there he started to learn about Agile methodologies and ways to improve the outcome of a software team. Due to a series of odd coincidences, he started a career in agile delivery managing and stayed in this path until now, becoming a firm believer in trust and feedback as the main pillars of a great team.
Born in Barcelona raised in the area of Maresme in Catalonia, he enjoys the mountain, a good film and boardgames & wargames as much as possible.
Proud father of his daughter, and his chihuahua, and happy to help with anything needed.
Cristina Palara
Senior Finance Assistant
Cristina is originally from Italy and graduated from Middlesex University with a 2.1 master's degree in Investment and Finance. Since graduating, she has worked in various accounting and finance roles, starting as an accounts clerk and moving up to management and budgeting positions. She has worked for both small businesses and global brands.
Cristina values a positive office environment and believes that being reliable and trustworthy are essential qualities for success in both personal and professional life. When she's not managing financial transactions, Cristina enjoys travelling, reading, cooking, and taking her Labrador named "Bubu" for walks in London parks.
Meet Paula! A former English teacher who decided to dive headfirst into the world of programming. Ever since, she has been on an exciting journey of non-stop learning and expanding her knowledge.
Excited to collaborate and solve problems as a team, Paula’s always excited to learn from others and lend a hand.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, making pottery, and travelling. But her favorite hobby is definitely gardening and growing her own food.
Teaching and mentoring is still one of Ben’s biggest passions and he still spends a lot of time guiding and mentoring others in the community who are taking their first steps in the tech industry.
When Ben isn’t working you can find him drinking coffee, watching rugby or spending time with his cats.
Áine Stapleton
Recruitment Coordinator
Noel’s journey into coding began in his childhood, driven by a fascination with how video games were made at the age of 13.
This curiosity led him to explore game programming. Soon, he started to learn more about other areas, including creating basic terminal behaviors as well as developing websites, mobile and desktop apps.
But Noel’s curiosity doesn’t stop at software development; it has allowed him to acquire skills in diverse areas, meaning he could also assist you with 3D modeling or video editing.
In his free time, Noel enjoys spending time with his cats and family. He also likes contributing to open-source programming communities, reading books, learning about technology in general, playing card games, and buying mangas that he will not read; he actually prefers to watch anime.
Jonathan Rocha
Software Craftsperson
Jonathan started his journey in software development at the young age of 12. At that time, he was busy enhancing the features of a game server he owned. When he turned 15, he found himself programming commands for robots during his classes, but he didn't know that software engineering could be his passion. Instead, he pursued a career in public service in his country. However, he realized that public service wasn't his calling and eventually returned to his roots and started pursuing software engineering again. This time, he discovered that his true passion was building cool stuff and taking on challenges using his imagination.
He has taken many courses and even completed postgraduate studies in Computer Science. Currently, Jonathan is experienced in using C#, .NET Core, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, React, and Angular.
When he's not coding, he enjoys reading sci-fi books, watching series, working out at the gym, racing go-karts, or playing table tennis.
Molly Freeman
UX/UI Designer
Molly is a UX/UI designer. After 8+ years working in graphic design and brand management, Molly followed her passion for problem-solving and has been working in UX since 2020. Originally from Australia, she now lives in the UK.
Molly knows that people are at the core of good design and builds collaborative relationships with her team and clients to develop the best experience for users.
When not working, you can find her with wife, son, and dog (Ripley), enjoying a walk around the Kentish hills; making mugs in her home ceramics studio; or cooking up a storm for friends and family. She also loves a sunny afternoon in a pub garden - though since moving to the UK those are few and far between!
Stefany Fernandes
Marketing Analyst
Stefany has a bachelor's degree in social communications and an MBA in Digital Marketing Management, having 7 years of experience she works as a Marketing Analyst where she is required to use a lot of creativity, analysis, and planning to strategise content for various social media platforms. She is particularly interested in video post-production, photo editing, script creation, and marketing strategies for publicity and authority development.
In her free time, she loves to create fashion content with a humorous touch on her social media.
Milena Szygulska
Software Craftsperson
Milena has a background in property management and client relations. Recently, she decided to switch gears and try out the tech world. She thinks more women should give it a shot too! Learning programming is a big challenge for her, but she's determined to succeed.
Milena thrives in multicultural environments, relishing the opportunity to meet new people and collaborate as part of a team. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, biking, gardening, and travelling to new places. Milena is always up for an adventure and ready to learn something new!
Carlos Morera de la Chica
Software Craftsperson
Carlos started his career focusing on mobile development to then became a full-stack developer. He has experience working in many industries from finance to eCommerce and enjoys building software using functional programming.
Outside of work Carlos is a big Motorsport fan and spends a lot of his time driving on iRacing on his racing simulator.
Javier is an experienced Engagement Manager with 20+ years in the IT world who has worked across several industries with a strong focus on banking, telco and retail.
Javier has a technical background as a developer, automation engineer, consultant, solutions architect and focused the last 10 years on project and people management, building long-term relationships with clients as a strategic partner. He always promotes collaborative work and effective communication, focusing his efforts on achieving results and customer satisfaction.
In his free time, Javier enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and playing padel and football.