Top Influencers: 23 UK Technical Lead's To Follow in 2022

Technical Lead, Infra & Product Optimization play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Technical Lead, Infra & Product Optimization role. We have selected these Technical Lead, Infra & Product Optimization’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Technical Lead, Infra & Product Optimization’s. The list is in no particular order!

Ghida Ibrahim

Technical Lead, Infra & Product Optimization @ Meta

Follow Ghida Ibrahim on Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin.

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[su_spoiler title=]How Data Analytics Can Help Us Build A More Empathetic Internet? The internet has became as essential as electricity and water to more than 4 billion people present online today. However, over 40% of the world population is still offline and a significant percentage of the connected population, particularly in the developing world, suffers from a low quality of experience translating into an inability to access many websites and apps, and significant delays and stalls when accessing sensitive content such as video. In this talk, we start by explaining the basics of how the internet works. We then dig deeper into how techniques like operations research and game theory can inform a enable internet players with different resources and interests to cooperate, thus improving the state of internet connectivity and helping to bring more people online to a better internet. Dr. Ghida Ibrahim works as a quantitative engineer/data scientist in the edge infrastructure team at Facebook London, where she builds data driven tools and models, and performs in depth analysis to drive the expansion and optimise the operation of one of the largest and most complex networks forming the internet, with the goal of bringing more people online to a better internet. In her spare time, Ghida built Rafiqi, a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) for connecting refugees to life opportunities, that has been recognized by TechCrunch as one of the most innovative new projects using tech to help refugees, and was a finalist of many awards including Techfugees Global Challenges competition and the Tech for Good UK awards. Learn more about Ghida Ibrahim on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Warren Mercer

Technical Leader @ Cisco

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Warren Mercer on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Brian Waterfield

Virtual Reality & High-end Visualisation Technical Lead @ Jaguar Land Rover

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[su_spoiler title=]He have worked at Jaguar Land Rover for the last 14 years, and have evolved virtual reality and high-end visualisation over the pass 8. Technologies has always fascinated him and lead hin back to university to achieve a master degree with distinction in Virtual reality, high-end visualisation gaming technology; which enabled him to apply this knowledge to the development of our vehicles. He set up the VRcentre in 2008 which at the time lead the automotive world in resolution and functionally, it comprised of three walls and a ceiling offering 4x HD and multifunctional graphics. He have developed technics to enable visual perception of our brands DNA, along with ergonomic process that have aided the development of challenging design like the Evoque & F-type Over the past six year He have matured the virtual support and last year finish an extension to the VRcentre, renaming it the “virtual innovation centre” introducing state of the art technology and resources to further enhance virtual innovation. He is a strong believer in this technology changing the engineering and design landscape, so he continue to work with universities to achieve his goal to create the perceptual equivalent of the real world. Learn more about Brian Waterfield on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Jaguar Land Rover manufactures and sells high-performance luxury saloons, specialist sports cars and four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. Read more about Jaguar Land Rover on Crunchbase…

Liudas Šmatavičius

Technical Lead @ Kilo Health

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Liudas Šmatavičius on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Ignat Korchagin

Technical Lead @ Cloudflare

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Ignat Korchagin on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Alicja Gilderdale

Technical Lead & System Engineering @ VMware

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[su_spoiler title=]Alicja Gilderdale is the Technical Lead & System Engineering at VMware. Learn more about Alicja Gilderdale on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Lorenzo Sicilia

Technical Lead @ ConsenSys

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Lorenzo Sicilia on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Annabel Azim

Programmes Technical Lead – Economic Inclusion & Innovation @ Leonard Cheshire Disability

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Annabel Azim on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Leonard Cheshire Disability is a major health and welfare charity working in the United Kingdom. Read more about Leonard Cheshire Disability on Crunchbase…

Marwa Adawy

Agile Technical Lead / Scrum Master @ Yielders

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[su_spoiler title=]Marwa Adawy is the Senior Agile Technical Lead / Scrum Master at Yielders Learn more about Marwa Adawy on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach. Read more about Yielders on Crunchbase…

Marwa Adawy

Agile Technical Lead / Scrum Master @ Yielders

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[su_spoiler title=]Marwa Adawy is the Senior Agile Technical Lead / Scrum Master at Yielders Learn more about Marwa Adawy on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach. Read more about Yielders on Crunchbase…

Adam Thomas

Front End Technical Lead @ Privitar

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Adam Thomas on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy. Read more about Privitar on Crunchbase…

Dominic Hurr

Technical Lead @ iBAN

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Dominic Hurr on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

iBAN is a crowdlending financial company that aims to deliver better deals to savers and borrowers. Read more about iBAN on Crunchbase…

Hannah Mitchell

Technical Lead for Cyber Analytics @ BAE Systems

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[su_spoiler title=]Hannah Mitchell is the Technical Lead for Cyber Analytics at BAE Systems’ Managed Security Services (MSS). She joined the company in 2012 as an MSS Security Analyst and quickly progressed to writing analytics behind alert generation, helping to protect BAE System’s customers from Cyber Security threats. In her current role she’s responsible for managing and maintaining BAE Systems’ analytic coverage, ensuring it is up to date with the latest attack landscape – both through development of new analytics and approaches – by constantly assessing and improving existing capability. Hannah has a degree in Engineering Mathematics, from the University of Bristol. Learn more about Hannah Mitchell on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

BAE Systems designs, develops, and supports defense and aerospace systems used in the air, on land, at sea, and in space. Read more about BAE Systems on Crunchbase…

Robert Firek

Technical Lead @ Zopa

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Robert Firek on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees. Read more about Zopa on Crunchbase…

Stuart Beattie

Technical Lead @ ShareIn

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Stuart Beattie on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels. Read more about ShareIn on Crunchbase…

Nick Tune

Technical Lead @ Navico

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[su_spoiler title=]Nick is a product-focused technical leader. He has helped teams in a variety of organisations to achieve continuous delivery and high alignment, including the UK government, Salesforce, and 7digital. He is the co-author of Designing Autonomous Teams and Services (O’Reilly) and Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wrox), and blogs from ntcoding.co.uk. Learn more about Nick Tune on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Brian Naylor

IBM Technical Leader for System Integrators @ IBM Cloud

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[su_spoiler title=]Worldwide Architects Leader in IBM Cloud, leading the team of Cloud Software architects across the globe. Helping customer deploy great Cloud Computing solutions, and deliver business impact with BlueMix, Cloud Management, Mobile First and DevOps solutions. Learn more about Brian Naylor on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

David Somers

Technical Lead @ Pixie Labs

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We partner with our clients to bring new products to market and in some cases transform their business completely. Read more about Pixie Labs on Crunchbase…

Craig Whiteside

Technical Lead Developer @ Orka Technology Group

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Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work. Read more about Orka Technology Group on Crunchbase…

Tim Jenks

Technical Lead @ WRLD

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A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins. Read more about WRLD on Crunchbase…

Chris Shennan

Co-Founder and Technical Lead @ ShoutAbout

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Chris Shennan on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

A simple link shortener for YouTubers, Instagramers, Bloggers, Marketers, Sales & Superheroes Read more about ShoutAbout on Crunchbase…

Dominik Bryk

Technical Lead @ Motion Stride

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[su_spoiler title=] Learn more about Dominik Bryk on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Tugberk Ugurlu

Technical Lead @ Redgate Software

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[su_spoiler title=]Tugberk Ugurlu a self-motivated software guy who craves to create great software products and build effective development teams with 9 years of software development experience. I currently work as a Technical Lead at Redgate by leading a lean-minded product development team and I’m also a Microsoft MVP on development technologies. Learn more about Tugberk Ugurlu on Crunchbase…[/su_spoiler]

Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform. Read more about Redgate Software on Crunchbase…