ClimbUK: The UK’s Festival of Business Growth @climb-uk.bsky.social Climb25: 2-3 July 2025, Leeds Dock
Where founders, innovators & investors connect to accelerate growth. Join the UK's only festival dedicated to scaling businesses. Impactful talks, immersive workshops & unmatched networking.
www.climb-uk.com
Caroline C @carolinecotterall.bsky.social Delivery & Ops Lead, consultant and team coach.
Dot Net North @dotnetnorth.bsky.social Dot Net North has been connecting #dotnet developers in Manchester since 2011! Join our monthly in-person meetups for insightful talks, networking, community events, and more!
🔗 dotnetnorth.org.uk
🗓️ meetup.com/dotnetnorth
Oli Newsham @scarylooking.dev Sweary dev. Co-organiser of Dot Net North. Obsessed with rocks. Perpetual Lord of Misrule. 🏳️🌈
⚠️ All opinions are absolutely and irrevocably those of my employer. Especially the spicy ones.
Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social ✔️ Autistic / monotropic
✔️ ADHD / kinetic
✔️ Mathematician / software developer (retired)
Fairly opinionated about all three.
Macclesfield, UK.
Imran Rashid @imranrashid.bsky.social Azure Technical Trainer @ Microsoft | MCT | Founder AzureCrazy.com | Blog at cloudbuild.co.uk | #Microsoft #Azure | Views are mine
Martin SFP Bryant @martinsfp.bsky.social A big chunk of my life is made up of working in quantum technology and going to gigs. Occasionally I talk about those things here.
Ben Wilson @gtb3nw.bsky.social Platform Engineer | Manchester
Let's talk about nerdy things!
Gareth Powell @gmmapowell.bsky.social One of the few who recognize the total and complete pointlessness of life.
Gerald Benischke @beny23.github.io Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him
Jonny Burch @jonnyburch.com Designer and product-er. Ex founder progression.co (acq Sep24). Working on my skeets
My internets:
jonnyburch.com
foundupnorth.com
Martin @martinrue.bsky.social 🙋🏻♂️ I build things on the internet
👨🏻💻 Building a private community • https://buildmode.club
🌎 Languages • 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇻🇳 🇹🇭
📍 Thailand
🔗 https://martinrue.com
Random Robbie @what-security.co.uk #infosec | #exploiter | #asm | fox | #LFC | scanner of the internet | #wordpress exploiter | #greynoise lover. | #Bugbounty hunter | Northerner | #UK
Sam Phillips @samsworldofno.bsky.social Principal engineer in HealthTech. Startup tech advisor, former founder and CTO with 3x exits. Interested in everything, currently coding in Ruby, TypeScript and Golang.
ambitionisgood.com/sam
Manchester, UK
@joe-fenton.bsky.social @joe-fenton.bsky.social 
Rob Bowley @robbowley.net Product & Tech Leadership Advisor, Consultant, Coach & Mentor
Tech, Software Development, Science, History, Economics, Politics
https://blog.robbowley.net
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbowley
https://pragmaticpartners.co.uk
Manchester, UK
Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk I've been an engineer, software developer, architect, director & CTO. Now I'm a hands-on consultant doing business and tech strategy. Creator of the business evolution map. Father & Husband. It WILL go wrong & it CAN be fixed. He/him.
hatwell @hatwell.bsky.social it's hatwell! you know, hatwell from twitter!!!!! hiya!!! this is not me skeeting in a work capacity of any kind.
Agile Manchester @agilemanc.bsky.social 12-13 May 2027 | The North’s practical, hands-on event for Flow, Lean and Agile practitioners
https://agilemanchester.net
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
Neil Vass @neil-vass.com Helping software teams work well together
Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev gives a whole new meaning to the term "spaghetti code"
Leading a bunch of teams @posthog.com
ex @coopdigital @footclicksus
swears too much, draws rubbish diagrams
(he/him/his)
https://pauldambra.dev
Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social Researching harmed & missing children w/ ML+NLP (“AI”) + more.
Ex IT worker.
Papers + preprints:
* https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2333561
* https://doi.org/10.1080/30679125.2025.2612199
* https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.524bcce2
Claire Reckless @clairereckless.bsky.social Engineering Manager, Tester, occasional public speaker
Paul Smith @paulmsmith.bsky.social Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Tekin Süleyman ☕️ @tekin.co.uk He/Him | Ruby & Rails consultant | Git wrangler
Founder of @jointogether.online co-operative
Organiser of @nwrug.org
tekin.co.uk
Manchester, UK
Vimla Appadoo @thatgirlvim.bsky.social Co-Founder of Honey Badger. Trustee of diversityuk. Board member at Greater Manchester LEP. Podcaster. Keynote Speaker. Won some awards.
www.thatgirlvim.com
MartinDotNet @martindotnet.bsky.social Observability Evangelist, DevRel @honeycomb.io, Microsoft MVP and #OpenTelemetry contributor.
I talk on stage about o11y and otel stuff... basically.
Chris Gibbons @gbbns.co Design Engineer • Front End • Accessibility • Design systems • Framework agnostic • Astro • Northerner • Swearer • LFC • Buffalo Bills • Walker of Wainwrights
🔗 - http://gbbns.co
⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com whitep4nth3r.com
Staff Engineer at [REDACTED].
I am not on The Internet.
♥ drummer, maker of musics @chromasetica.com
James Lewis @jameslew.is 👋 Hello! UK based cofounder at lemon.co • financing platform that helps SaaS teams close bigger deals by offering their prospects flexible monthly payments for annual & multi-year plans
Next.js • Tailwind • product • marketing • SaaS • fintech 
Phil Wolstenholme @wolstenhol.me Lead front-end eng @CoopDigital. Interested in the web (front-end, #a11y, performance), environment, bikes (everyday/utility) and science. @philw_@hachyderm.io
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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