Websites from United Kingdom

Zac Hatfield-Dodds is a member of technical staff at Anthropic, an AI safety and research company in San Francisco. He works on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Previously, he contributed to the Autonomy, Agency, and Assurance Institute. Zac also volunteers for community organisations and served on the board of the ACT Conflict Resolution Service and the executive of Effective Altruism ANU. He organises events like the mentored sprints and co-authored a report on PEPFAR. A PSF Fellow, Zac regularly contributes to open source software and is the lead developer of Hypothesis. He also co-maintains Pytest and started hypofuzz.com. Zac often speaks at conferences.

Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher and Director at Truthful AI, a research group in Berkeley. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley. His research focuses on emergent misalignment, out-of-context reasoning, and introspection in LLMs. Previously, he worked at FHI (Oxford) and earned a PhD from MIT. He serves on the Board of Directors at Ought and Constellation. He gave the Hinton Lectures in 2025 in Toronto.

Matthew Sinclair, also known as M@, is an Aussie software engineering leader based in London. He has almost 30 years of experience building digital products, services, and platforms, working with designers, product managers, engineers, and innovators. He is the Founder & CTO of As Yet Unnamed Newco. Previously, he was a Partner & VP Engineering at BCG X and BCG Digital Ventures. Matthew was also the Founder & CTO of Geodica and Carpadium Consulting. He has delivered complex technology systems in telecommunications, financial services, and payments sectors. He enjoys coaching and mentoring future engineering leaders. Matthew has a Bachelor of Information Science from Newcastle University (Australia) and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He holds numerous patents.

Anders is a Fullstack Developer, Product Engineer, and Startup Founder. He has spent most of his career building consumer facing apps. He does consulting work on Clojure, JVM, SQLite, product design, rapid prototyping and performance tuning (with a focus on vertical scaling). He is an Open Source contributor to hyperlith and sqlite4clj. He has created fun demos such as Game of Life (Multiplayer) and One billion checkboxes (Multiplayer). He is also a speaker.

Alexander Zarebski is an Assistant Research Professor in the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in the application of mathematics, statistics and computation to problems in infectious diseases, epidemiology and public health. He has worked on software including DERP (Deep Recursive Parameter Estimation), Jump-Switch-Flow (joint work with Domenic P.J. Germano), and Timtam (Time-series Integration Method Through Approximation of Moments). He has taught Mathematics & Statistics for Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne in 2024, Biological Modelling and Simulation at the University of Melbourne in 2023, Git, GitHub and Reproducible Research at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford from 2021-2022, and Applied Analytic Statistics at the Oxford Internet Institute from 2020-2022.

Osada Lakmal Paranaliyanage is an experienced Software Engineering Manager with over 17 years of leadership in building scalable, cloud-native solutions across finance, telecom, and media. Currently, he heads a backend engineering team at the BBC in Glasgow, utilizing API-driven microservices on AWS that powers the backend of BBC Sounds. The tech stack is typescript based, and they prefer fully cloud native and Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) solutions. He focuses on building a high performing, psychologically safe team that delivers business value early and often. Osada is a dual citizen of the UK & Sri Lanka. He is energized by helping shape Sri Lanka’s tech landscape. He is a proud father of two. In his spare time, he travels, reads, cooks, and plays table tennis.

Prof. Luc Rocher is an Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. They lead the Synthetic Society Lab, a research group that conducts human-centred computing research to understand how data, digital infrastructure, and algorithms affect society. Prior to joining Oxford, Luc received a PhD from the Université catholique de Louvain and worked as a researcher at the Data Science Institute and Computational Privacy Group of Imperial College London, at the ENS de Lyon, and at the MIT Media Lab. Their work has been published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, and has been covered by newspapers and featured in media outlets. Their research has been referenced by organizations and has led to changes to the UK's Data Protection Bill. Luc was General Chair of HotPETS and Area Chair for ACM FAccT. They lead the Observatory of Anonymity, an interactive website in 89 countries.

Shantanu Mishra, also known as 8hantanu, is a software engineer based in Cambridge, UK, working on AI systems. He is originally from India and has a background in Mathematics, Electronics and Finance. He enjoys making new things at Yree. His core competence is in AI inference systems and simulation, and he is now making a switch towards ML compilers. He is interested in high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He enjoys graphic design, creating logos, illustrations, and UIs. In his leisure time, he enjoys reading and running. He also loves to travel and experience new things.

David Winter is a Software Engineer based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the United Kingdom. He has a passion for coding and writing about it. He has co-authored four books, including "Modernising Legacy Applications in the Public Sector," "User-centered Practices for Sustainable Technology," "Building High Performance Agile Teams," and "A Field Guide To Continuous Delivery." David is currently developing a keyboard driven note application called nimblenote, built with Electron and available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Benedict Evans is an independent analyst who focuses on understanding what matters in tech. He has 25 years of experience analysing mobile, media, and technology, with a background in equity research, strategy, consulting, and venture capital. He writes essays and a weekly newsletter with 175,000 subscribers, providing context and analysis on important changes and ideas in the tech industry. Benedict also gives presentations exploring macro and strategic trends in tech, including "AI eats the world" in Autumn 2025. He has given presentations for companies including Alphabet, Amazon, AT&T, Axa, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, L’Oréal, LVMH, Nasdaq, Swiss Re, Visa, Warner Media, Verizon and Vodafone.

Chris Gibbons is an experienced and passionate digital developer based in Lancashire, UK. He specialises in traditional front-end development practices and has a long-time obsession with well-written, semantic, and accessible code. Chris sits in the murky waters between design, front-end, and back-end engineering. He strongly advocates for the use of design systems. Chris has worked for some of the biggest names in Manchester, working on large-scale, content-managed platforms for some of the largest companies in the UK. Outside of work, Chris enjoys cycling, writing, and photography. He also supports Liverpool FC.

Kevin Coyle is a technical lead and design system consultant based in the UK. From a young age, he has been interested in technology, science fiction and video games. He tinkered with computers from a young age, eventually learning to program. He studied Physics with Technological Physics at university. In the mid 2000's he ran a web development business. He then worked as a Drupal developer for TalkTalk, eventually becoming their lead developer. He then worked as a contractor in medcomms for around 4 years. After that, he spent a year developing Drutek. He then worked for an agency based in Chichester, and was promoted to tech lead for a new design system at Pfizer. He is currently a consultant at Big Medium. He has shifted his focus recently to A.I and machine learning.

Peter Kappus is a UK-based organisational development coach. He uses OKRs and agile practices to help teams maximise clarity, delivery, and joy. For more than 25 years, he’s been an engineer, project, programme, portfolio manager, facilitator, trainer, coach and transformation consultant helping teams in world-leading organisations to improve how they work and achieve better outcomes. He helps teams get clear on what they're doing, why they're doing it, and how to get better at doing it. He uses Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), lean/agile methods, and inclusive facilitation tools like Liberating Structures. His clients include the UK Government, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Xavi Costafreda-Fu is a student at the University of Oxford studying Mathematics and Computer Science. In his free time, he reads and writes on Substack. He also posts on Twitter. On his website, you can see what he's up to and what he's about in general. He has one and a half years’ worth of monthly playlists available, as well as some art that he likes.

Jarod, known online as concertman, is originally from Kansas and now lives in London, UK, with his wife, two kids, and three cats. He works in the audio team at Apple, where he spends time listening to music and making tools for music and other sounds. He enjoys publishing his thoughts and decided to bring back old iterations of a blog. He grew up in the Methodist Church and later became part of the Orthodox Christian Church. He is a Swiftie and believes Taylor Swift is an incredible songwriter and performer. He is self-taught in programming and primarily uses Swift, along with ObjectiveC/C++ and other C languages. He hopes to get back into songwriting.

Olu Niyi-Awosusi is a developer in local government in the UK, with fullstack skills and a frontend leaning. Their pronouns are they/them. Olu is interested in writing and speaking opportunities, and has written for A List Apart and spoken at You Got This and FFConf. They are currently learning, building, and maintaining skills in web accessibility, CSS, computer science, electronics, social, environmental and disability justice, ethics of care, technology ethics, sewing clothes, movement and exercise, personal projects, and hyperlocal and online community. Olu believes that the internet should be available and accessible to everyone.

G Snow is a web developer based in London. He is interested in web accessibility, semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He likes to build things with Astro, Eleventy, and React. He is currently learning more about TypeScript and React Native. He is available for freelance work.

Quentin Pain is passionate about business and the people who start them. He has been starting and growing businesses for 45+ years, including QPL Express Couriers (1979), Apricote Studios (1985), Accountz (1999), ProofMEDIA (2014), and the ICA (2020). He is the Founder of the International Copywriters Association. Quentin was also formerly IAB Small Business Mentor of the Year. What motivates him is seeing the joy people get when their first sales start coming through.

Ben Byford is a games designer, AI ethicist, teacher, web designer, space maker, and artist. He is a podcaster for the Machine Ethics Podcast and an Ethical by Design Artificial Intelligence consultant. Ben makes games with his company Nuclear Candy Games. He has taught data science, design & coding with Cambridge Spark, Decoded and Ada College. He has worked on web, games, ML and app projects, and even ran his own co-working space. Ben's public speaking and lecturing blends his insights in AI and ethics, web technologies, games and entrepreneurship; focussing on the usage of technology as a tool for innovation, social good and creativity. Ben can be found in Bristol, UK.

Gaz Joyce is a lead design consultant at Valtech UK. He has 18 years of experience in the digital design industry and a passion for design and accessibility. Gaz enjoys solving complex problems as part of a team and uses evidence to drive certainty into assumptions. He focuses on delivering inclusive digital services to the public and helping organizations make accessible, digital experiences through inclusive working practices. Gaz has been designing and building web interfaces since graduating in 2004 with a degree in Multimedia Design. He enjoys simplifying complex problems by listening to opinion and questioning reasoning. Previously, he worked at iWeb in Stafford.

Cal McKim was born in Golden, Colorado, and later moved to Houston, TX, then Anchorage, AK. He attended the University of San Diego, where he earned a degree in Neuroscience. Cal then pursued an MSc in Marketing at Cass Business School in London, UK, where he currently resides. His interests include baseball, tennis, music, nutrition, and writing.

Lyndon Hill is a Research Scientist and Engineer, Leader, and Founder. He makes and creates things to solve problems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, augmented reality and movie/video content production. His interests include 3D Reconstruction, Visualisation, Sensors, and Video Processing. He is also interested in Photography and Cinematography, Thai and Japanese Languages, Programming, Electronics and 3D Printing. He shares his projects and things he has learned on his website. He is based in Bristol, UK.

Ryan Brooks is a CTO with a development and operations origin story. He is a Camembert lover and buzzword hater. His previous experience includes JSOxford, OxRUG, MoJ, and GDS. He shares only personal opinions on his blog. He is based in Sheffield, UK.

Clint Brown shares ideas, news, and things he’s working on through his website. He has presented Autodesk University classes over the years. He can be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Tumblr as Unofficial Inventor. He runs his website in his spare time as a hobby, while balancing a full-time job and a life away from CAD, and the blog is not a commercial undertaking.