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OpenUK’s New Year’s Honours Lists

 

 

 

 

The 2026 OpenUK Honours List will be shared at midnight on the 31st of December. This is the 6th annual OpenUK New Year Honours list, celebrating some of the individuals supporting the UK’s leadership in Open Technology.

 

 

Abby Bangsor Founding Principal Engineer Syntasso
Alex Chircop Chief Architect Akami
Andrew Duddfield Head of AI Full Fact
Andrew Josey VP Standards and Certification The Open Group
Andrew Pugh Ford Motor Company Development Engineer
Andrey Breslav Founder Codespeak
Anil Madhavapeddy Professor of Planetary Computing University of Cambridge
Anton Lokhmotov Founding Member ML Commons
Antony Hallam IT Systems Flexitricity
Benjamin Nicolls Strategic Director Open Source Collective
Benjie Gillam Director Graphile
Bethany Griggs Senior Software Engineer RedHat
Brian Bishop President Open Connectivity Foundation
Bryan Boreham Distinguished Engineer Grafana Labs
Cheuk Ting Ho Developer Advocate JetBrains
Chris Ashton Senior Developer GDS
Chris Lloyd-Jones VP AI Consulting Kyndryl
Chris Plank Lead Enterprise Architect Natwest
Craig Wylie Lab Product Owner Lloyds
Daniele Procida Director of Engineering Canonical
David Clubb Head of Climate Action Cardiff University
David Hewitt Staff Software Engineer Pydantic
David Soria Parra Member of Technical Staff Anthropic
David Chisnall Director of Systems Architecture SCI Semiconductor
DeanSummers Founder, Director of Engineering Lampata
Denise McKenzie Managing Partner PLACE Trust
Dimitra Simeondieou OBE Director, Smart Internet Lab University of Bristol
Don Syme Principal Researcher and Visiting Professor GitHub and Kings
Dr Laura Gilbert CBE Head of AI Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Edith Puclla Technology Evangilist Pecona
EgorTolstoy VP Product JetBrains
Fintan Ryan Director, Competitive Insights GitHub
GarethKinghorn Network Engineer NScale
Gary Ewan Park Principal Software Engineer Chocolatey Software
Gavin Henry Founder Ant Networks Ltd
GodfreyInyama Research and Teaching Assistant Herriot Watt University
Graham Campbell Founder Graham Campbell Technology Ltd
Grant Likely CTO Linaro
GuillaumeLebedel Founder and CTO StackOne
Guy Podjarny Founder and CEO Tessl
Hannah Wolfe CTO and Co-Founder Ghost Foundation
IainSmart Principal Consultant Amberwolf
Iain G Mitchell KC King’s Council Tanfield Chambers
Jakub Karolczyk Senior Software Engineer SignalWire
James Hirst COO and Co-Founder Tyk
JamesSmith Creator and Maintainer Manyfold
Jan Frackick Lead Software Engineer Kainos
JavierOrensanz Martinez CEO lowRISC
JennyBrooker Head of Data Architecture GDS
Jim Halfpenny Managin Director Stackable
Joe Salisbury VP Engineering Giant Swarm
Joe Birr-Pixton Director Synecdoche Consultin
Jonny Williams Chief Digital Adviser, UK Public Sector RedHat
Joseph Seddon Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation
Josh Mesout Chief Innovation Officer Civo
Justin Spahr-Summers Director Fern Games
Konstantin Vinogradov General Partner Runa Capital
Kris Chaplin Open Source software lead AMD
Luke Marsden Founder and CEO HelixML
Maria Lema CEO Weaverlabs
Maria Skampoura Founder and CEO Developable
MarkoBevc Principal Consultant The Scale Factory
Martin Costello Staff Engineer Grafana Labs
Martin Yargi Intellectual Property manager First light Fusion
Matt Jukes Interim Head of Product Ministry of Housing
Mike Bursell Executive Director Confidential Computing Consortium
Monica Sasso Global Financial Serivces RedHat
Neil Lawrence Google Deep Mind Professor of ML, Universtity of Cambridge University of Cambridge
Nick Lockwood Software Engineer Bloomberg
Nicki Watt CTO Trifork UK
Nicolas Vibert Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer Isovalent
Nicolas Hourcard Co-Founder QuestDB
Nikita Koselev Lead Software Development Engineer Mastercard
Oliver Cronk Technology Director Scott Logic
Rafah El-Khatib Nvidia AI DevRel
Rahul Krishnan RA Barclays Bank UK PLC AVP, Platform Engineering
Rebecca Flack Data Sharing Manager UK Power Networks
Rebecca Franks Senior Android Developer Relations Manager Google
Richard Evans Country Manager WS02
Rohit Ghumare Head of DevRel motia.dev
Ross Burton Principal Software Engineer Arm
Ryan Dawnson Principal Data Consultant Thoughtworks
Sal Kimmich Technical Director Gadfly.ai
Simon Maple Head of DevRel Tessl
Thomas Sadler Senior Principal Sofware Engineer BBC
Tim Telford CEO DevTank
Tom Longhurst Senior Software Engineer JustEat
Tom Wilkinson Chief Data Officer Scottish Government
Yiu-Shing Pang Data Sharing Manager UK Power Networks
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