OpenUK’s New Year’s Honours Lists
OpenUK has partnered with Onalytica and Runa Capital to analyse data on contributions and to identify its list of open source software contributors for its 2024 New Year’s Honour List.
The New Year’s Honours list is a British tradition, marking the achievement of extraordinary people in the UK. As OpenUK celebrates its third such list King Charles III celebrates his first. The Honours system is designed to recognise contribution, achievement and service.
We congratulate all individuals who are honoured in 2024:
| Alicia Sykes | Principal Engineer | AND Digital | |
| Andrew Nesbitt | Software Engineer | Freelance | |
| Andrew Kingston | Lead Software Developer | Budibase | |
| Andy Wilkinson | Staff Engineer | Spring Team, VMware | |
| Benjie Gillam | Open Source Maintainer | Graphile | |
| Camila Macedo | Senior Software Engineer | Foundries.io | |
| Charis Kyriakou | Senior Software Engineer | GitHub | |
| Chris Lamb | Core Developer | Reproducible Builds | |
| Chris Banes | Software Engineer | Stealth Company | |
| Clare Macrae | Volunteer Contributor and Mentor | Open Source | |
| Colin Watson | Freelance Consultant | Debian | |
| Colin King | Principal Engineer | Intel | |
| Dan Harrin | Lead Developer | Kirschbaum | |
| Daniel Marti | Maintainer | Cuelang | |
| Danny Tuppeny | Director | Coded Consultants Ltd | |
| David Maciver | Software Developer and Researcher | Freelance | |
| Derick Rethans | Software Engineer | PHP Foundation | |
| Dustin Carlino | Research Associate | The Alan Turing Institute | |
| Dylan Taylor | Maintainer | PocketMine-MP | |
| Emma Luff | Founder | LittleByte | |
| Erik Johnston | Staff Engineer | Element / Matrix.org | |
| Gordon Williams | Director | Espruino | |
| Hector Dearman | Senior Software Engineer | ||
| Ian Miell | Partner | Container Solutions | |
| Issy Long | Senior Software Engineer | GitHub | |
| J. Ryan Stinnett | Research Associate | King’s College London | |
| Johanna Amann | Open Source Architect | Corelight | |
| John Cupitt | Freelancer | Libvips.org | |
| Jonathan Wakely | Senior Principal Software Engineer | Red Hat | |
| Jonathan Riddell | COO | Blue Systems | |
| Joseph Wright | Member | The LaTeX Project | |
| Karina Thomas | Senior Software Engineer | BBC | |
| Laurent Cozic | CEO | Joplin | |
| Liz Rice | Chief Open Source Officer | Isovalent | |
| Lorna Mitchell | VP Developer Experience and Open Source Maintainer | Redocly | |
| Mandy Chessell | Director | Pragmatic Data Research ltd | |
| Mark Brown | Principal Software Engineer | Arm | |
| Mark Harris | Engineering Director | Original Circuit Limited | |
| Martin Thompson | Head of Product | Adaptive Financial Consulting | |
| Michael Borcherds | CTO | GeoGebra | |
| Mike McQuaid | Cofounder and CTO | Workbrew | |
| Neil Mitchell | Programmer | Meta | |
| Oluwasegun Adebayo | Founder and Software Engineer | Chakra UI | |
| Paul Chote | Assistant Professor | University of Warwick | |
| Peter Cock | Research Software Engineer | James Hutton Institute / Biopython | |
| Rachel Mant | Lead Software Engineer | 1bitsquared | |
| Rachel Andrew | Content lead for Chrome Developer Relations | ||
| Remy Sharp | Software Designer | Left Logic | |
| Richard Davey | Founder &CTO | Phaser Studio Inc | |
| Richard Hughes | Senior Principal Software Engineer | Red Hat UK | |
| Rita Zerrizuela | staff software engineer | Okta | |
| Robert Osfield | Project Lead | VulkanSceneGraph | |
| Robert Watson | Professor | University of Cambridge | |
| Ruth Cheesely | Project Lead | Mautic Project Lead | |
| Sadie Powell | Maintainer | Anope, InspIRCd | |
| Sam Nazarko | Founder | OSMC | |
| Sam Aaron | CEO, Creator | Sonic Pi | |
| Sareh Heidari | Senior Software Engineer | Accurx | |
| Simon Pilgrim | Principal Programmer | Sony Interactive Entertainment | |
| Siobhan Bamber | Software Engineer | Automattic | |
| Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins | Staff Software Engineer | Astronomer | |
| Tom Hughes | Software Developer and System Administrator | Open Street Map | |
| Usha Mandya | Manager, Technical Writing | Docker | |
| Vsevolod Stakhov | Founder | Rspamd Ltd | |
| Will McGugan | CEO | Textualize | |