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.

Alan Parry

Alan leads our development teams, keeping us ahead of the pack with the latest new features. He has dog years’ of experience taking world class R&D teams from concept to product. Prior to joining YellowDog he led Hewlett-Packard Laboratories’ Advanced Development organisation and Container research teams.

Alan lives in Bristol with his young family. He loves getting out in to the countryside and off the leash on bikes and in boats.

Alister Burrell

Alister has over 15 years experience in linux and network administration and is passionate about cloud tech and automation.

Having worked for names such as Blackberry, HP, Nokia Alister has seen and designed many implementations: big and small.

In his spare time he is the father to two young children. Alister has two dogs in his life: YellowDog and his beloved 'Staffy Jack cross.'
He loves the outdoors, water, wheels, and geeking."

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 it all at once.

Ashley Cartman

Ashley is a qualified chartered accountant specialising in fast growing and entrepreneurial businesses.

Since 2004 he has worked exclusively for high growth businesses both as an external adviser and as the most senior in-house finance professional. His roles have always extended beyond finance to include strategic, operational, legal, compliance, and HR matters. Since 2010 he has specialised in technology businesses participating in a number of sales and fundraising processes.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY in London.

Beth Hewitt

Beth is YellowDog's Sales and Marketing intern. She is currently studying a Masters by Research in Clinical Veterinary Sciences. When she’s not dealing with cows or the energetic pup that is YellowDog, she enjoys watching the rugby, travelling, and all things food.

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

Gareth hounds the YellowDog kennel, spearheading the vision to build a world where people do more, create more, discover more; unleashed from limited computing power.
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 and talking to anyone (usually together).
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 has just returned from maternity leave for her first child, which means she now functions on very little sleep.

Jack Davies

Jack joined YellowDog in the Autumn of 2015 as Sales Executive, having had several years experience in both retail and software sales. He has helped to grow YellowDog's faithful following of customers and became Marketing Executive in January 2018.

In a quiet moment, he can be found enjoying a small glass of whiskey whilst nursing his baby son off to sleep.

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

Jamie Donald

Jamie has worked in Financial Services for the past 13 years, moving into Fintech in the last 5 years. Holding senior roles in marketing, strategy and proposition, he has a passion for working with brands who challenge the market and deliver greater value to their customers. Jamie is responsible for leading YellowDog’s move into Financial Services, using his experience and YellowDog’s technology to solve some of the most complex problems faced by industry today.

Jamie lives just North of Bristol with his wife and two children and can regularly be found on one of his (many) bikes or on the golf course.

You can email Jamie on jamie.donald@yellowdog.co or phone +44 7722 184444.

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 a Masters 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!

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.

Povilas Krauleda

Richard Murray

Richard has 25 years experience in IT: from assembly language on MS-DOSv2 through to containers on hyper-visors via Cisco and IBM on the way. He provides automated service deployment onto cloud infrastructures.

Richard has a passion for RDF distributed systems and contributing to various open source projects. When not playing with a swarm of Pi's, he balances renovating a house with competing in Ultra Trail Marathon running events.

He lives north of Bristol on a common surrounded by cows for 6 months of the year with his wife and young daughter.

Sam Dotrice

Sam joined the YellowDog sales team in July 2017; he looks after new customer and inbound enquiries. Sam is always on the hunt for more studios that could be helped out by YellowDog rendering.

Sam has a degree in Creative Product design from Bristol UWE. Since graduating, Sam has worked in sales and recruitment: matching creative talent to a range of markets and reputable design and manufacture companies such as Dyson.

Sam lives in Bristol and loves climbing on the gorge in Clifton Down unless it is raining, in which case, he will stay inside and game the day away!

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.

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.