The team behind Thoughtified

Thoughtified apply innovations to solve challenges in industry and is passionate about delivering high quality solutions. Design, Research and Development quality is ensured on the inside and outside of all our projects, so that we build effective tools that are usable and are presented well. We personally evaluate every single element that our teams and contractors deliver.

Thoughtified uses agile development methodologies (delivering to the clients from very early stages and then re-iterating), to ensure that projects are completed efficiently and with success. We have used agile’s most successful representative Web framework, Ruby on Rails (the system behind successful companies like Twitter and Groupon) for years. More than a year ago, we gathered a team of mobile designers and developers, extended our agile approach to scrum for mobile applications and have secured "Thoughtified Apps" collaborations with the University of Surrey, the NHS, Natural England (and the Wildlife Trusts) and various clients, again with the same participatory sensing and dataset visualisation IP at the core of our operations.

• Georgios Michalakidis

  Founder and Managing Director

  

  Georgios Michalakidis has been involved in the software development business for over 10 years. He has experience in using advanced Web 2.0 methods and applies them to service-oriented architectures and systems. Georgios enables services to be accessed from remote locations using smartphone devices securely with efficient computational power management. He develops in Java and Ruby on Rails and has expert knowledge on large datasets and information security. He advises and consults the Clinical Informatics Research Group as a Research Fellow with extensive published work in medical data extraction and processing.

  Georgios holds two computing degrees and is working towards a PhD. He is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy and has a track record of publications, awards and involvement in various innovative tech start-ups.

• Aaron Mason

  Founder and Managing Director

  

  Aaron Mason is a web developer who works with agile web frameworks. Aaron holds two degrees in computer science and is currently working towards a PhD. He has experience with cloud computing and 'green' technologies and has research papers published in this area.

  Aaron enjoys working with latest technological developments and is passionate about innovation. He is an early adopter of the agile software development methodology and one of its best representative frameworks, Ruby on Rails.

  He likes making things happen through the use of technology in innovative and intelligent ways. He is a software engineer who is interested particularly in web-based systems. He has innovated and saved companies costs through improving business processes.

Nick F Ryman-Tubb

Business Development Director

Nick Ryman-Tubb started as a software engineer; by twenty Nick had produced and sold his own designed 8-bit rack-based computer, popular computer games and published many articles. Nick founded Tubb Research in 1986 and worked to help bring the world's first neural computing Integrated Circuit to market. In 1990, he founded Neural Technologies Limited to concentrate on the application of neural network software that he had created. Nick became well known in fraud detection and credit risk management and he pioneered products using this technology deploying in worldwide banks and telecoms firms. By 2000, the firm had reached a position where it continued to grow and no longer required such founder hands-on skills and Nick stepped down as CEO. Nick then founded MindsI to provide help to SMEs through business planning, funding and innovation. Nick joined Public Square Limited as Innovations Director where the award winning We-Pay-We-Say social website was pioneered designed to raise funds for the local community by the local community.

He became a Research Fellow at City University London researching state of the art neural-symbolic approaches at the Department of Computing and then moved on to the University of Surrey, as Director of Industrial Liaison, to carry on his leading edge neural computing research hands-on producing over 50,000 lines of software, a patent, papers and books and working with industry partners and experts to develop research into practical solutions.

Paul Krause

Research Director

Paul Krause is Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computing at Surrey University. His research career has spanned 34 years, with contributions in the fields of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. Prior to moving to Surrey, he worked in internationally leading research projects at the National Physical Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) and Philips Research Laboratories UK. As such, his focus has always been on applicable research, a theme that he still maintains at Surrey University.

Paul was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for his work on applying theoretical approaches from Artificial Intelligence to software engineering. His work currently focusses on the application of open systems theory to industrial and digital ecosystems. As always, this work extends from foundational theoretical modelling through to the development of applicable techniques for the development of open, composable (software) systems.

Jonathan Hodrien

University Observer

Jonathan graduated from University College London with a degree in Plant Ecology and Microbiology, holds an MBA qualification and is the University of Surrey's Technology Transfer Manager with responsibilities for Bio-health, IT and environmental technologies. He has 22 years of commercial banking experience.

Jonathan has been heavily involved with environmental charities as a past director of Stakeholder Forum, Director of Friends of Conservation, and Chair of Trustees of the Cheetah Conservation Fund UK. He remains Chair of Global Tiger Patrol.

Development Workforce

Thoughtified employ highly-skilled developers working in exciting projects with Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, Python, User Interfaces (UI) and User eXperiences (UX). Intelligent, efficient algorithm development, Web application development as well as smartphone development is the core of our operations. We are agile and efficient in our work and proud of the people we choose and integrate with our team. We are always looking, but only looking for the best. If you believe the things we do interest you or someone you know, get in touch with us.