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We've always tried to create a happy and hard-working environment for our permanent staff, and to maintain a small, focussed team. That way our customers can get the expert attention they expect, and no middle management to get in the way.
Matthew Bloch Co-founder and Managing Director
Matthew is the de-facto Managing Director and co-founder of Bytemark, and implemented many of its original software systems that manage and monitor the company's hosting products. He came from a background of software engineering roles on PC virtualisation and Java virtual machine products, and now heads the team improving its many different software systems. He marshals his thoughts while playing more video games than is healthy, and through a unique "hit-and-run" gardening style.
Peter Taphouse Co-founder and Senior Network Engineer
Peter designs Bytemark's extensive core network and server infrastructure, and is co-founder of the company. His years of experience growing our infrastructure from a single rack to five data centres ensure calm seas and a generously over-provisioned network for Bytemark's customers. After work, Pete is a committed gastronaut, travelling the world for excellent food, and occasional pyrotechnician.
Patrick Cherry Software Developer
Patrick is a software developer with an academic background in medical physics. He is responsible for design and maintenance of many of our critical software systems, such as our custom alarms and server monitoring, and a recent overhaul of our customer accounts system. Patrick is a keen cyclist, choral singer and scout leader.
Steve Kemp System administrator and Developer
Steve is a Debian developer and creator of the excellent Debian administration web site. As well as building steam engines out of hours, he is a veteran systems administrator, and has implemented a large number of Bytemark's server deployment and imaging systems.
Nick Thomas Software Developer
Nick is a graduate from the University of York who has applied his formidable coding talents to improving our rack database, load balancing controls, and IPv6 support. He studies Japanese, dances a mean salsa and is good at hat tricks.
David Matthews Technical Support
David's varied, self-taught background in teaching, IT administration, gardening and programming impressed us in early 2009 - he's now our patient Voice Of Support and a vital first contact for our customers.
Chris Scott-Thomas Data Centre Manager
Chris studied video games design at university and, after a year employed by Bytemark's main data centre, has joined us as our data centre manager. Chris is helping us expand our rack and network infrastructure as well as building and repairing customers' servers.
Tim Dobson System administrator and developer
Tim joined the team in November 2010 and has been blazing a trail through our managed customers, helping with both sales and implementation, so our customers get exactly what they ask for. He's also the company's contact for sponsorship and open source outreach. He cycles, he walks, and han lär sig Svenska.
Alex Young Software developer
After years of contracting on our internal systems, we talked Alex into moving to York full time in 2011 to work on our brilliant new hosting platform BigV. His experience with Ruby and good taste in software is exactly what we need. He plays the Ukelele and is on team dog.
James Lawrie System administrator
James has worked on web and database systems for years, and from his time at both Netcraft and UKFast knows exactly what our customers want. He has a great mix of programming and system administration experience, and joined us in May 2011 to develop our internal systems and answer our customers' hard questions.
Chris Cottam Data centre engineer
Chris Cottam joined us in August 2011 to help run our data centre and fulfil orders. We are very excited about his broad experience in chemical R&D, IT services, computer recycling and roadie-ing. Chris is a keen hill-walker.
Dan Shearer Technical Director, fixer
Dan Shearer has been around Linux since the very begnning. He is the founder of the Samba project, and a popular speaker on open source and free software. He has joined Bytemark to help with launching BigV and helping us make better use of our collective brain power.
James Hannah System administrator
James Hannah joined us at the start of 2012 to bring his varied Linux experience to our managed customers. He's a Mancunian with a long experience in radio station engineering, and loves hill-walking.
James Carter Software developer
James Carter comes to us from the University of York where he built the Computer Science department's in-house Linux distribution, terminal server and many other crucial parts of their infrastructure. He is a retro-computing enthusiast spotting computers that appear in TV and film, and has run an online music quiz, for the last seven years.
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