About GDC Careers

GDC careers is a sub project of the Graduate Developer Community. Our aim is to help graduates and undergraduates with their career planning, to discover new roles or industries they Continue reading →

Joel Horowitz – Quantitative Analyst / Developer

Joel started coding games when he was 15, then created web applications a few years later during his PhD in Mathematics. It is only in his mid-twenties that he started Continue reading →

Nicola Evans- Test Team Leader

Nicola thrives on variety: following a first degree in History Nicola then moved on to UCL’s conversion MSc in Computer Science, and then worked as a developer in a corporate research Continue reading →

Boris Vrtic – Analyst Programmer

Boris Vrtic is a Senior Analyst Programmer at Alaric Systems Ltd., London, UK (Oct 2011 - present). Prior to that: Senior Software Developer, Software Architect, Project Manager, Asseco SEE, Croatia (3y10m), Technical solution and Continue reading →

Adrian Woodhead – Technical Team Lead

Adrian is a hands-on technical team lead at Last.fm in London where he works with a group of smart people focused on the services behind the scenes that power the popular music Continue reading →

Trisha Gee – Software Engineer

Trisha is a developer at LMAX, a financial exchange in London. She’s been working in financial markets the last 6 years or so, but a fear of boredom and healthy Continue reading →

Charles Wicksteed – Architect

Charles has over 30 years experience in consulting, he started out as a developer, moving between various projects before becoming an architect. The projects he has worked on have varied Continue reading →

Martin Anderson – Architect

Martin Anderson has worked in IT for the last 13 years across industries as diverse as online advertising and news to investment banking and gambling. He came to the industry Continue reading →

Al Davidson – CTO

Al Davidson started coding at 8yrs old, and has been doing so professionally since graduating in Physics in 1996. He specialises in web applications, covering areas as diverse as social Continue reading →

Chris O’Dell – Software Engineer

Chris O’ Dell is a Software Engineer with 8 years experience favouring server side web development such as REST APIs and Services and who is passionate about developing clean, maintainable Continue reading →

Jack Shirazi – Java Champion

Jack Shirazi is the founder of fasterj.com which publishes the popular JavaPerformanceTuning.com website and newsletter; he’s also the author of the successful book “Java Performance Tuning” and is an elected Continue reading →