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.

Laura Phillips
Delivery Director

Joanna Cheng
Delivery Lead

Lauren Dodd
Senior Delivery Lead

Sasha Burgoyne
Head of Academy Operations

Callum Bates
Research Principal

Simon St. John-Green
Technical Principal

Farooq Ansari
Client Partner

Chris Willis
Delivery Director

Sean Judge
Delivery Principal

Carly Gilson
Senior Software Developer

Cameron McCormack
Technical Lead

Joseph Walker
Software Developer

Shivam Chandarana
Senior Software Developer

Andrew Thomas
Managing Director

Yingxin Jiang
Senior Software Developer

Rita Ramasamy
Tester

Gareth Edwards
Technical Director

Zoe Cunningham
Director

Chris Harris
Chief of Staff

Gareth Johnson
Head of Operations

Yemi Olagbaiye
Director, Client Portfolio

Tom Steer
Commercial Director

Andy Smart
Sales and Marketing Director

Jonathon Artus
Director, Client Portfolio

Phil Marsden
Founder / IT Director

Laura Hughes
Technical Principal

Pete Kenny
Founder / Director

Raam Chauhan
Senior Delivery Lead

Rowan Hill
Head of Project Delivery

Alex Wolff
Director, Client Portfolio

Siddharth Asokan
Chief Marketing Officer

Dan Shavick
Founder / Recruitment Director

Dan Waters
Head of Data Engineering and Delivery Principal

Lukasz Dygon
Senior Technical Lead

Usman Iqbal
Development Operations Specialist