Adam Blanchard
Software Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2017
Software Engineer in the Sky Vegas squad; worked on the release of the new desktop and mobile platforms using PHP, JavaScript and React.
Adam Hepton
Lead Engineer, Website Experience · Bet Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2015
After almost ten years working in the education sector and contributing to key building blocks of the web such as the HTML 5 specification and jQuery, Adam joined Sky Betting & Gaming, where he is passionate about ensuring the millions of users of Sky Bet have a pleasant experience regardless of what device or platform they are visiting from. He and Tom Hudson were part of a group of people who initiated the trending topic #songsincode on Twitter in 2009.
Adam Pointer
Principal Automation Engineer · Platform Services Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2018
Tech lead within the Platform Services team, focusing on what the next generation of our build tools looks like.
Adam Stacey
Senior Devops Engineer · Core Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Proud to be part of the Core Tribe in Sheffield, a keen cyclist and parent
Alex Stanhope
Solution Architect · Bet (Nexus) Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2018
Coder turned Architect, fascinated by tech and the things it can do for how we all work together.
Alice Kaerast
Senior Automation Engineer · Infrastructure Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2019
Alice played a key role in building our Hadoop-based data platform as a DevOps Engineer and then Architect, and then applied this engineering experience in the infrastructure tribe on Apache Kafka and other shared platforms.
Andrei Sandu
Devops Engineer · Core Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2018
Young DevOps Engineer with a thirst for learning and a love of challenge. Grumpy SysAdmin in training.
Andrew Munro
Senior Software Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2015
Senior Software Engineer working on the SkyVegas platform. Coming from a games development background, I enjoy delivering the best gaming experience possible to our customers.
Andrew Newsome
Lead Cloud Reliability Engineer · Infrastructure & Security Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2012
Member of the Infrastructure & Security Tribe, responsible for the reliability of the SBG cloud platforms and infrastructure services
Andy Burgin
Lead DevOps Engineer · Infra Tribe
Andy is a Lead Platform Engineer at Sky Betting and Gaming. He considers himself a Kubernetes and Hadoop fettler, spending a far too much of his spare time making Raspberry Pis do things they shouldn’t. He was a small part of the organising team for DevOpsDays London 2019 and has been runing the Devops meetup in Leeds for 6 years hosting over 50 events. He’s attended and spoke at a bunch of DevOps conferences and in his own words is ‘an all round DevOps nuisance’.
Andy Butcher
Solutions Architect · Bet Tribe
Always in search of the simplest thing that could possibly work
Ashley Broadley
Engineering Manager · Data Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2012
Likes Programming, Board Games, Cycling, Squash, Thai Boxing and Pilates.
Callum Leahy
Graduate Software Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Part of the team delivering real time promotion information to our internal customers, working with Apache Kafka and NodeJS
Chris Buckley
Senior Solutions Architect · Gaming Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2022
Architect with an engineering background and a passion for working software. Loves pulling things apart and deleting as much as possible.
Colin Ameigh
Principal Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2017
Generalist with no preferred language. Has been building large scale, high availability systems since the last millenium
Craig Andrews
Principal Engineer · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2015
Craig was responsible for the Hadoop platform back in its early days as we struggled with bash scripts gluing Hive queries together, and invented our Pidl Ruby DSL to resolve this problem.
Craig Stewart
Principal Devops Engineer · Core Customer Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
An experienced Systems Administrator and Professional member of BCS
Dan Adams
Web Application Security Specialist · Infrastructure Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2011–2019
Our go-to guy for any security-related questions
Dan Rooke
Solution Architect · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2010–2019
Dan spent most of his SB&G career with the account team, managing traffic growth of several orders of magnitude over a few years. More recently a Solution Architect with a specific interest in real-time event processing.
Darrell Taylor
Hadoop Developer / Consultant · Data Tribe
Data Warehouse forklift driver, shifting crates of one and zeros around the place.
Dave Chaston
Engineering Manager · CTAP Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2023
Former Engineer/Lead/Engineering Manager. Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.
David Sunter
Graduate DevOps Engineer, Platform Services · Early Careers Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Dave joined on the first software academy ran by SB&G in August 2016, now working in Platform Services Team as a Gradaute Dev Ops Engineer.
Gary Mulder
Site Reliability Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2017
After 10 years as a Systems Administrator, now specialising in Site Reliability and Performance Analysis. Likes making fast computers run faster. And maximum-pain chilli peppers.
Gav Harris
Engineering Manager, Platform Services · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2011–2018
Gav joined the SB&G family as a member of the Infrastructure Tribe, and has a strong desire to automate all the things. He led our Platform Services team, succesfully rolled out Chef across the entire estate, and was at the forefront of our investment in infrastructure automation.
Glen Mailer
Software Engineer · International Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2011–2015
Sheffield-based generalist who loves programming and hates waste.
Holly Straker
Learning & Development Coordinator · People & Support Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2017
Working to create a learning and inclusive culture at Sky Betting and Gaming
Ian Thomas
Principal Engineer · Bet Tribe
UI focused engineer with a passion for JS, UX and front-end performance.
Iker Gomez
Software Engineer · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2017
Iker was one of our Software Engineers in the Data Team keeping our pipelines alive... He was the team member responsible for the data team improving their Spanish language skills
Jake Roberts
Security Operations Analyst · Infrastructure & Security Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2019
Part of the Security Operations team at SkyBet.
James Moorhouse
Software Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2017
Software Engineer in the Bet & Customer Transactions squad where he works primarily on the Bet Tracker product, written using a combination of PHP and React.
Jamie Munro
Lead Engineer · Bet Trading Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2011
Lead engineer in Trading Models squad, building AWS serverless applications to predict the outcomes of sporting events. Former football trader, current football fan.
Joe Mills
Tech Academy Grad · Gaming Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2021
I'm a tech grad in the Games Experience Squad (GES). Some of the things I help to maintain are launching games, reality check and minigames.
John Denholm
Lead Platform Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2020
Longtime Skybet engineer, generally in charge of all things Graphite. Likes cats and whiskey.
John Kitson
Scrum Master · Gaming Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2018
John worked as a Scrum Master in the Gaming Tribe, covering the Gaming Promotions and Casino squads. John is a father of one and in his spare time enjoys running and organising at his local junior parkrun.
Jon Bulbrook
Software Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2014
Currently a Software Engineer in the Gaming Promotions Squad, working on internal APIs and real-time promotions using Apache Kafka and NodeJS. Also worked on the new Sky Vegas platform using React, JavaScript and PHP.
Josh Mitchell
DevOps Engineer · Data Tribe
Josh is a platform engineer in the Hadoop data team, and keeps our Cloudera cluster ticking over.
Leanne Jagger
Software Engineer · Bet Trading Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2018
Software engineer working on in-house trading tools, typically using Java, React, Node and a serverless architecture in AWS.
Lee O'Donnell
Director of IT Infrastructure & Security · Infrastructure Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2010
Leads the delivery of high scale, secure and high performance infrastructure platforms for SB&G. Background in electronic engineering of high performance computing platforms, telecoms and software engineering of internet solutions
Leigh Hall
Head of Information Security Engagement, Architecture, and Delivery · InfoSec Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2020
reformed Developer, reformed Business Analyst, reformed Consultant, reformed Engineer, reformed Architect, InfoSec Leader WIP. Also plays and makes music (time-permitting), plays squash (knees-permitting), and plays XBox (family-permitting).
Lucy Davinhart
Senior Automation Engineer · Infrastructure Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2021
Instigator of DevOps Shenanigans, Woman who Go, and Recreational Procrastinatrix.
Also completely incapable of deciding on a single consistent surname.
Pronouns: they/them or she/her.
Macs Dickinson
Lead Software Engineer · Bet Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2017
Dad. Welsh. Cat person. Involved in Leeds Hack & Yorkshire Digital. Software Engineering Enthusiast.
Marcus Ojerinde-Ardalla
Junior Data Engineer · Data Tribe
A Young Data Engineer With a Passion For All Things Sports
Martin Blackburn
Principal Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Principal engineer in the Games Experience Squad (GES). Which is responsible for launching games from different providers across each of products, creating mini-games such as the Prize Machine, and the running of reality check, one of our safer gambling tools.
Martyn Ranyard
Platform Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2014–2017
Multi-faceted geek, some people collect things and call it a hobby, I collect hobbies.
Matt Kirwan
Software Engineer · Gaming Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2019
Software Engineer in the Gaming Promotions Squad currently working on processing real-time promotional data using Apache Kafka and NodeJS.
Oliver Leaver-Smith
Operations Manager · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2017–2022
Topics of expertise include OpenBSD, automation, chaos and resilience engineering, and Nerf warfare. He is also interested in security, networking, privacy, opensource, decentralisation and federation, hardware hacking, and cyberdecks.
Patrick Holmes
Head of Cloud Delivery · Infrastructure & Security Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Member of the Infrastructure & Security Tribe, responsible for the operational delivery of the SBG cloud platforms and infrastructure services
Paul Brabban
Principal Data Engineer · International Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2017
Paul led the Data Engineering squad in the International Tribe and runs the (def shef) functional programming meetup in Sheffield.
Paul McCormick
Head of Bet Technology · Bet Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2013
Paul leads the Bet Tribe technology team and has worked in the betting industry for his entire career: first Ladbrokes, then Sportech, Buzz Sports and (best of all!) SB&G.
Paul Whitehead
Senior Performance Test Engineer · Core Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2016
Specialist in Performance Testing and Operational Acceptance Testing. PerfOps & #Perfmatters
Rami Alnawas
Senior Platform Automation Engineer · Infrastructure - Platform Services Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2019
A Developer who previously worked with SysAdmins until I joined SB&G where I fully embraced the DevOps movement. Keen problem solver and an objective advocate for Cloud and Serverless architectures.
Rob Groves
SRE · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2012–2018
Rob Tuley
Head of Data Technology · Data Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2011
Rob leads the engineering arm of the Data Tribe with teams working on data warehousing via Hadoop, real time data streaming, Informix & Oracle management, and infrastructure automation & platform tooling.
Sophia Chambers
Junior Software Engineer · Core Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2016–2019
A software engineer in the Core UI tribe based in Sheffield. Favouring all things javascript.
Tom Davidson
Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Delivery · Infrastructure Tribe
Working at Sky Betting & Gaming since 2014
Part of the Delivery squad who are responsible for deploying, upgrading & scaling the PaaS that underpins the majority of the Sky Betting & Gaming products. His philosophy is, "Why do something manually more than once when you can script or automate it."
Tom Hudson
Principal Engineer · Bet Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2011–2020
Pragmatic purist, problem solver, coder and Go lover.
Tom Lomas
Software Engineer · Core Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2015–2016
A software engineer with Account in the Core Tribe. Works with the account integration API and more recently in improving the payment systems used by deposits and withdrawals.
Tom Scott
Principal Data Engineer · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2014–2015
Tom provided technical leadership for the SB&G Hadoop data team when he wasn't driving his family around in his minibus. After working in our cutting edge team till Nov 2015, he now works for Cloudera.