About YellowDog

Aivaras Ciurlionis

Aivaras will soon be a graduate from the Kaunas University of Technology in Software Engineering where his final year project is developing an application that reads a mathematical equation from a digital photo and automatically loads it into a smartphone and solves it for you. Genius!

Aivaras has also worked on Kake Make – the most popular game for small children in Lithuania.

Andrius Elsbergas

Andrius likes nothing more than fiddling around in YellowDog’s backend. He’s written all our algorithms for cloud management and automated operations. He’s in his final year of his Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Degree at the Kaunas University of Technology.

Music, jogging and reading are his hobbies outside work and study. The impressive thing is he does all at once.

Callum McDonnell

Callum is a sales and marketing pup with pedigree experience across multinationals, government and startups in the UK, Spain and India.

An economics with politics graduate from Aberystwyth University, he spent a year at the world leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus, within the UK Government Affairs Department, as part of his degree, along with a scholarship at the Advisory Firm Arkay & Arkay, in New Delhi, India.

On graduation he moved to Barcelona, Spain, to manage the summer sales process for the ESADE Business School’s Executive MBA Programme, before joining the inflight entertainment startup, Immfly, to drive the companies international expansion,
manging airline accounts and content licencing deals within EMEA.

At YellowDog, Callum helps p-awesome 3D studios and artists in the UK and around the world, use our game-changing technology.

You can email Callum on callum@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.

Gareth Williams

Following an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Durham, Gareth cut his canines working in software and telecoms at companies including Orange, Experian QAS, FREEDOM4 and Arieso, where he was part of the Management Team that completed the successful sale of the company to JDSU in March 2013 for $85m.

One day he had a brilliant idea for using spare mobile capacity which, following a chat with someone in the animation department at the University of the West of England, gave birth to what is now YellowDog. When not coming up with brilliant ideas, he is a dad, a keen cyclist, an ardent reader, a Samaritans Listening Volunteer. He also likes ale.

You can email Gareth on gareth@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.

Iris Eggelmeijer

Iris is one of our Render Wranglers, and is a 2014 alumni of DAVE-school in Orlando, Florida in Digital Animation and Visual Effects.

Since childhood, Iris has always been curious and creative in equal measures, developing from keeping her out of trouble, to a hobby, and now finally to a profession. Iris sees Animating and Modelling as a natural extension of her creativity, and whilst Render Wrangling was not something she expected to be doing, she loves the meeting of her creative and technical skills every day. Solving issues and making scenes work is incredibly rewarding, and she loves getting to use her full 3D generalist skillset.

In her spare time, Iris likes to bake and partake in some gaming. Iris and her husband are expecting their first child in September, which could keep her busier than we do...

Justas Sperauskas

Justas has over 10 years’ experience of Enterprise Software Development.

He loves driving software development from idea to production with fully aligned development processes (Agile, Team, Continuous delivery, Infrastructure, QA).

He holds Master in Computer Science and lives in Kaunas with his wife and two small children.

Justas Salkevicius

Justas is responsible for the development of the YellowDog Application. If that’s not enough, he lectures in Software Project Management at Kaunas University of Technology and is also half way through his PhD where he’s looking at how machine learning can recognise human emotions.

He has always loved computer graphics so working on YellowDog is like a dream come true!

Jack Davies

Jack was reared with pedigree sales experience in Colorado where he ran his own sales franchise in a summer holiday during University. After a few years of branch and territory retail sales management, Jack joined AIM listed MedaPhor in 2014 where he tendered cloud based, virtual reality training platforms into the NHS. He also oversaw bespoke installations of hardware and software into healthcare providers in Europe and the Middle East.

Jack joined YellowDog in the Autumn of 2015 and brings his love of art and innovation into the office every day. He aims to spread the good word of YellowDog far and wide.

In a quiet moment, he can be found enjoying a small glass of whiskey with his grandfather.

You can email Jack on jack@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.

Marcus Adams

An IT Alumni of Plymouth University, Marcus brings over 30 years experience and passion for good customer service. Having worked in the Public, Private and more recently spending the past 10 years in the 3rd Sector for the Citizens Advice where he ended up as their Technical Architect he knows what customers want and how to make it happen.

A chartered member of the British Computer Society; Marcus has CISMP, AWS Architecture and PRINCE2 qualifications (Security, Cloud & Project Management), so you can be assured that your work is in good hands.

When not deep in the bowels of a computer Marcus has a love of pinball, anime, real ale, cats and of course dogs!

You can email Marcus on marcus@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.

Michelle Purdie

Michelle studied Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff having held a number of administration positions including at Wincanton, the University of Bristol, and at a children’s nursery.

Michelle looks after YellowDog’s books, and when she’s not wrestling with Xero and Excel, she spends her time running, crocheting, raising her children and putting up with Gareth as she’s his long-suffering wife. Poor Michelle.

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Simon Ponsford

To Simon, technology related business problems are like a juicy bone to get his teeth into. He has 16 years of experience in high growth start-up environments working in CIO, CTO and Technical Architect roles in the UK, Europe, Middle East and North America, with several cloud computing related patents to his name.

He is passionate about delivering ‘green’ technology and is best known for designing the world’s lowest powered Windows PC in 2008. He is also responsible for KumoWatt, the leading training programme for IT professionals interested in reducing the carbon impact of what they do.

Tarne Fidler

Currently a history undergraduate at the University of Bristol, Tarne is a big fan of friendly people, start-ups, and great ideas.

Luckily for Tarne, YellowDog ticks all the boxes!

She interns in the sales team, helping to connect YellowDog with all the fantastic animation studios and freelancers out there, one paw at a time.

Tautvydas Petkus

Tautyvdas will soon be finishing his Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the Kaunas University of Technology. Whilst he’s working very hard on his final year project, he’s more proud of the work that he did on his under-grad degree. There he developed a system for managing a container freight terminal. Heavy lifting indeed!

In his spare time, Tautyvdas loves spending time at the gym, with another type of heavy lifting.

Tom Rockhill

Tom has over 10 years’ experience working in the technology sector of the Media and Entertainment industry.

From studying Film at University Tom has always had a passion for moving images, working as a Runner and Camera Assistant on daytime TV before switching to selling the products that create those very pictures.

In the past ten years Tom has worked with Film, Advertising, Broadcast and Animation companies in numerous territories including US, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Africa, India and of course the UK. He also lived in LA for a while whilst working for Foundry, managing the West Coast business and learning how to surf.

Tom leads the Sales and Marketing teams at YellowDog, using his experience to help build a customer focused company, whilst boring everyone with tales of working on daytime TV.

Vytautas Minelga

Vytautas loves nothing more than crazy hair cuts. When he’s not at the barbers, he’s in charge of Quality Assurance for YellowDog. He has four years’ experience in QA roles in a range of leading software companies in Lithuania.

He loves tinkering with hardware and has a dream to develop a prototype robot to work for him.

In the team, he’s renowned for knowing which bar and night club to head to in the evening. Him and Simon get on well.

Zymantas Pakstys

Zymantas helps keep our development team focussed on the task at hand and makes sure they’re all happy. He is a talented 3D artist, which is brilliant for YellowDog and our customers, and as a hobby spends time developing mobile applications.

Other than YellowDog the other two most important people in his life are his wife and daughter.