Our people
We started back in 2000 and have grown to over 300 employees. We’ve created the best-possible environment to produce outstanding software and deliver unmatched customer satisfaction.
We hire the brightest people, give them great autonomy, remunerate them well, and provide lots of opportunities for them to give back to their local and not-so-local communities. We are growing quickly but choose to do so organically, without taking on any debt. That all adds up to the best working environment around.
Result? Our software and customer service are second to none.
Softwire was founded in 2000 by Pete Kenny, Phil Marsden and Dan Shavick. Their goal was to create a company that did software the right way in a super working environment with bright happy employees. They care about the outside world too. Between them, they came up with the idea of Charity Saturdays, which raises five-figure sums annually, have been made a chief of a village in Ghana for work there and are Tough Mudders for charity.
Our directors joined the company in entry-level roles and worked their way up through the ranks—we have so much talent at Softwire, we almost always promote from within. This means they really do understand the challenges faced by the people they are charged with helping and guiding. Even as we have grown, they have made sure that we have retained the traits of the small company they originally joined—such as our willingness to experiment and to delegate responsibility to people early on in their careers.
Our heads of department care about building customer relationships and making Softwire great. They try constantly to improve how we organise and manage ourselves, develop our talent and anticipate any road bumps. Most of them came up through the company and know our processes inside and out.
We have over 300 people in our production team and they have a lot in common. They are smart; they like working with smart colleagues and they enjoy delighting our customers with brilliant software. They are good at it too. They also care about making a difference outside Softwire. They love digital engineering so much they work on pro-bono projects for charities and “24 pull request” open source initiatives.
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Laura Phillips
Delivery Director
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Joanna Cheng
Delivery Lead
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Lauren Dodd
Senior Delivery Lead
![Profile image for Sasha Burgoyne](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sasha-Burgoyne-731x1024.jpeg)
Sasha Burgoyne
Head of Academy Operations
![Profile image for Callum Bates](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Callum-Bates-vertical-819x1024.jpg)
Callum Bates
Lead User Researcher
![Profile image for Simon St. John-Green](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Simon-StJ-Green-2-857x1024.jpg)
Simon St. John-Green
Technical Principal
![Profile image for Farooq Ansari](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/farooq-731x1024.jpg)
Farooq Ansari
Client Partner
![Profile image for Chris Willis](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Chris-Willis-04-731x1024.jpg)
Chris Willis
Delivery Director
![Profile image for Sean Judge](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sean_judge-731x1024.jpg)
Sean Judge
Delivery Principal
![Profile image for Carly Gilson](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Carly-Gilson-1-732x1024.jpg)
Carly Gilson
Senior Software Developer
![Profile image for Cameron McCormack](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cameron-McCormack-322-991x1024.jpg)
Cameron McCormack
Technical Lead
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Joseph Walker
Software Developer
![Profile image for Shivam Chandarana](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Shivam-Chandarana-7-731x1024.jpg)
Shivam Chandarana
Software Developer
![Profile image for Andrew Thomas](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Andrew-Thomas-8-857x1024.jpg)
Andrew Thomas
Managing Director
![Profile image for Yingxin Jiang](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/headshotYingxin-857x1024.png)
Yingxin Jiang
Senior Technical Lead
![Rita Ramasamy](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Rita-Ramasamy--857x1024.jpg)
Rita Ramasamy
Tester
![Profile image for Gareth Edwards](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gareth-Edwards-1-857x1024.jpg)
Gareth Edwards
Technical Director
![Profile image for Zoe Cunningham](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Zoe-Cunningham-4-857x1024.jpg)
Zoe Cunningham
Director
![Profile image for Chris Harris](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Chris-Harris-7-857x1024.jpg)
Chris Harris
Director of People and Culture
![Profile image for Gareth Johnson](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gareth-Johnson-4-857x1024.jpg)
Gareth Johnson
Head of Operations
![Profile image for Yemi Olagbaiye](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Yemi-Olagbaiye-C2-1-683x1024.jpg)
Yemi Olagbaiye
Client Director
![Profile image for Tom Steer](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tom-Steer-08-857x1024.jpg)
Tom Steer
Financial Director
![Profile image for Andy Smart](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Andy-Smart-4headshot-857x1024.png)
Andy Smart
Sales and Marketing Director
![Profile image for Jonathon Artus](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jon-Artus-5-857x1024.jpg)
Jonathon Artus
Client Director
![Profile image for Phil Marsden](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Phil-Marsden-1-732x1024.jpg)
Phil Marsden
Founder / IT Director
![Laura Hughes](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Laura-Bethke-1-857x1024.jpg)
Laura Hughes
Technical Principal
![Pete Kenny](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/PeteK1-e1493378754985-1024x682.jpg)
Pete Kenny
Founder / Director
![Profile image for Raam Chauhan](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Raam-Final-Head-Shot-857x1024.jpg)
Raam Chauhan
Senior Delivery Lead
![Profile image for Rowan Hill](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Rowan-Hill-4-857x1024.jpg)
Rowan Hill
Head of Project Delivery
![Profile image for Alex Wolff](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alex-Wolff-1-857x1024.jpg)
Alex Wolff
Client Director
![Profile image for Siddharth Asokan](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sid-Asokan-5-857x1024.jpg)
Siddharth Asokan
Chief Marketing Officer
![Profile image for Martin Twiss](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Martin-Twiss-2-857x1024.jpg)
Martin Twiss
Client Partner
![Profile image for Dan Shavick](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dan-Shavick-5-857x1024.jpg)
Dan Shavick
Founder / Recruitment Director
![Profile image for Dan Waters](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Dan-Waters-03-857x1024.jpg)
Dan Waters
Head of Data Engineering
![Profile image for Lukasz Dygon](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Lukasz-Dygon-5-857x1024.jpg)
Lukasz Dygon
Technical Lead
![Profile image for Usman Iqbal](https://www.softwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Usman-Iqbal-6-844x1024.jpg)
Usman Iqbal
DevOps Specialist