About us > The Kyan team
Creative and technical talent.
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Gareth Adams
Developer
Resident cynic and cheesy music fan, Gareth defines oneupmanship by the amount of screen inches on his desk. In his spare time he’s a bit of a pool shark and amateur poker player.
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Phil Balchin
Developer
Vlad… dislikes talking to other people about himself in the third person. Cricket fan and Mac-evangelist you won’t separate him from TextMate till you pry it from his cold dead hands.
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Matt Hamm
Designer
Matt Hamm is a design guru who loves South America, the web, sci-fi, cinema, design, animation, illustration, typography, taking photos, real ale and playing guitar.
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Nick Linnell
Developer
Nick, male, 30ish, Aries, hopeful father of future England all-rounder. WLTM autonomous open source robot written in Ruby distributed under the GPLv3 license, but accepts that this is unlikely.
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Piers H Palmer
Director
Piers has a strange feeling that not only is the universe a whole lot stranger than we think, but is most probably a whole lot stranger than we can think.
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Pete Orme
Designer
The current holder of the office ten-pin bowling trophy, Pete has a cunning plan and will soon overthrow Paul as Fantasy Football League champion mwah ha ha!!!
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Laurent Maguire
Director
Laurent prefers not to sit at his desk as it's always a paperwork and coffee cup mountain; instead he wanders the office with his laptop offering advice to all whether they want it or not.
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Pete Roome
Developer
Whilst mastering Ruby and Rails; Pete takes great pride in building smart systems with great interfaces. He loves sharing on Google Reader and sifting out the sharpest apps on the Web.
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Gavin Shinfield
Director
Currently experimenting with facial hair (again) Gavin likes to yomp around the country in search of Megalithic monuments when not blogging for Kyan or seeking out more esoteric typefaces.
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Paul Sturgess
Developer
Paul spends his days carving images, writing stylesheets & coding in Ruby on Rails. He is an Arsenal fan, an amateur photographer and fills the office jukebox with as much soul as he can.
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Steven Wake
Developer
Steven is the baldest member of the office, a geek, vegetarian, indie music lover and a slipper wearer. When not hacking, Steven can be found playing games, watching films or laughing.
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Robin Whittleton
Developer
Robin gets off on working around browser bugs, which is worrying. In the real world, he’s found cooking increasingly interesting food and making vague attempts to become a tidier person.
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Joel Richards
Developer
Whilst not digesting Ruby on Rails, Joel is most likely found doing the following: photography, traveling, watching a film or fiddling with CSS.
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Big Rainbow Head
Team mascot
Big Rainbow Head watches over all the team and makes creative magic happen, whilst listening to jazz through his headphones.
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