Our People

Matthew was CTO of a venture-backed technology start-up in the UK & US for 10 years, and is now the co-founder of endjin, which provides technology strategy, experience and development services to its customers who are seeking to take advantage of Microsoft Azure and the Cloud.

James has spent 20+ years delivering high quality software solutions addressing global business problems, with teams and clients across 3 continents. As Director of Engineering at endjin, he leads the team in providing technology strategy, data insights and engineering support to organisations of all sizes - from disruptive B2C start-ups, to global financial institutions. He's responsible for the success of our customer-facing project delivery, as well as the capability and growth of our delivery team.

James is an experienced consultant with a 20+ year history of working across such wide-ranging fields as infrastructure platform design, internet security, application lifecycle management and DevOps consulting - both technical and in a coaching capacity. He enjoys solving problems, particularly those that reduce friction for others or otherwise makes them more effective.

Mike is a Software Engineer at endjin with over a decade of experience in solving business problems with technology. He has worked on a wide range of projects for clients across industries such as financial services, recruitment, and retail, with a strong focus on Azure technologies.

Carmel is a software engineer and LinkedIn Learning instructor. She worked at endjin from 2016 to 2021, focused on delivering cloud-first solutions to a variety of problems. These included highly performant serverless architectures, web applications, reporting and insight pipelines, and data analytics engines. After a three-year career break spent travelling around the world, she rejoined endjin in 2024.

Carmel has written many blog posts covering a huge range of topics, including deconstructing Rx operators, agile estimation and planning and mental well-being and managing remote working.

Carmel has released two courses on LinkedIn Learning - one on the Az-204 exam (developing solutions for Microsoft Azure) and one on Azure Data Lake. She has also spoken at NDC, APISpecs, and SQLBits, covering a range of topics from reactive big-data processing to secure Azure architectures.

She is passionate about diversity and inclusivity in tech. She spent two years as a STEM ambassador in her local community and taking part in a local mentorship scheme. Through this work she hopes to be a part of positive change in the industry.

Carmel won "Apprentice Engineer of the Year" at the Computing Rising Star Awards 2019.

Ed is a Data Engineer helping to deliver projects for clients of all shapes and sizes, providing best of breed technology solutions to industry specific challenges. He focusses primarily on cloud technologies, data analytics and business intelligence, though his Mathematical background has also led to a distinct interest in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and other related fields.

He also curates a weekly newsletter, Power BI Weekly, where you can receive all the latest Power BI news, for free.

Ed won the Cloud Apprentice of the Year at the Computing Rising Star Awards 2019.

Jon is an experienced project lead and architect who has spent nearly 20 years delivering industry-leading solutions for clients across multiple industries including oil and gas, retail, financial services and healthcare. At endjin, he helps clients take advantage of the huge opportunities presented by cloud technologies to better understand and grow their businesses.

Ian has worked across an extraordinary breadth of computing - from embedded real-time systems and broadcast television to medical imaging and cloud-scale architectures. As Technical Fellow at endjin, he brings this deep cross-domain experience to bear on the hardest technical problems.

A 17-time Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Ian is the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 12.0 and one of the foremost authorities on the C# language and high-performance .NET development. He's a maintainer of Reactive Extensions for .NET, Reaqtor, and endjin's 50+ open source projects.

Ian has created Pluralsight courses on WPF fundamentals, WPF advanced topics, WPF v4, and the TPL, and has given over 20 talks at conferences worldwide. Technology brings him joy.

Jessica comes from a Biosciences background, having gained a 1st Class Bachelor of Science in Biology from The University of Manchester.

During the lockdown Jessica used the opportunity to explore her interest in technology by taking two Code First Girls online courses; Introduction to Web Development and Python Programming. This led Jessica to look for job opportunities in the technology sector and she joined endjin's 2021 apprenticeship cohort, which had over 200 applicants.

Since joining endjin, Jessica has developed deep expertise in Power BI, DAX, and the Azure data platform. She is a Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) and works across data engineering and analytics projects using technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, and Power BI.

Jessica has written extensively about her areas of expertise, with blog posts covering topics from DAX deep dives and Power BI performance optimisation to Azure notebooks and C# pattern matching.

Barry has spent over 25 years in the tech industry; from developer to solution architect, business transformation manager to IT Director, and CTO of a £100m FinTech company. In 2020 Barry's passion for data and analytics led him to gain an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

Howard spent 10 years as a technology consultant helping some of the UK's best known organisations work smarter, before founding endjin in 2010. He's a Microsoft ScaleUp Mentor, and a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Developer Technologies, and helps small teams achieve big things using data, AI and Microsoft Azure.

Thanks to a volunteering placement which opened her eyes to the capabilities of technological innovation, Thea studied Biomedical Engineering at King's College London.

Here, she found her love for code through her programming modules and entertains her tech interests in her spare time through online courses and coding-driven projects.

Wanting to learn more about work-life in a tech company and the ins-and-outs of how businesses are run, she joined endjin's 2021 intern cohort.

Nehemiah is a graduate from the University of Bristol, gaining a 1st Class Masters of Science in Mathematics with Statistics. During his summer internship, Nehemiah worked with Python to pre-process, gather insights from data and developed a machine learning model. He has an interest in automating processes to solve daily inefficiencies and building robust solutions.

Nehemiah worked at endjin between 2021-2022.

Klaudia was an intern and an Electronic Engineering student at University of Southampton.

During her degree she learned about electronic devices and computer architecture which sparked her interest in technology. This led Klaudia to apply for the internship at endjin.

Amy was a student at the University of Reading studying Biomedical Engineering.

She loves all things tech and loved the problem solving aspects of programming and the feeling of constantly learning new things.

Outside of academics and work, Amy is passionate about art and enjoys painting in her spare time. She also enjoys languages and is learning Spanish in addition to her native languages English and Khmer.