Team Songkick
We’re a bunch of live music fans based in East London who want to make it more fun to discover and go to concerts. We’re involved in the London hacker community, and run a monthly meet-up. Join our Facebook group to get details about the next one.
We’re hiring!
Take a look at our current vacancies. Even if you don’t fit into one of the roles, email us anyway if you love live music and get obsessed with solving interesting problems. We’re always looking for good people.
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Ian Hogarth, (co-founder, CEO)
Ian got a master’s in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Pete Smith, (co-founder, COO)
Pete threw summer festivals in his backyard between years in his law degree at Cambridge. (He grew up in the middle of nowhere. It was a big backyard.) Thankful to leave law behind, Pete worked at a small tech consultancy selling enterprise software before quitting to start Songkick.
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Michelle You, (co-founder, Chief of Product)
Michelle studied English and philosophy at Columbia before receiving her master’s in English at Cambridge, all of which was training for writing the snappy copy you read on Songkick. She was the managing editor of Theme magazine before starting Songkick.
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Phil Cowans, (CTO)
Phil received a PhD in machine learning from Cambridge and is responsible for leading Songkick’s small but mighty technical team. He plays bass guitar and helped run Cambridge’s student radio station. Phil was doing postdoctoral research at Cambridge on predictive text entry methods and search algorithms before he quit to join Songkick.
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Marc Pacheco (Client-side Architect)
Before joining Songkick, Marc lead the client-side development of the Guardian’s R2 project, which, over the course of 2.5 years, moved the entire website onto a more modern and robust platform. Before that, he worked on a wide variety of standards-compliant websites for the likes of Unilever, BT, Sky, and Halifax.
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Gideon Bullock, (Design Director)
Gideon has been designing since the early 1990’s, across mobile, iTV, and the web. He was lead designer at the BBC, helming their homepage redesign in 2000. Since then, he was at Skype in their early years and started his own T-shirt design website, MySoti. Gideon also DJs at a night called 99p Records in Shoreditch.
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Niko Felger
Songkick’s very own word nerd received first-class degrees in computational linguistics and natural language processing from Saarbrücken and Cambridge. His mom says that it wasn’t until he got a Game Boy at age six that he developed an interest in anything. These days, his favorite hobby is eavesdropping on people with funny accents and dialects.
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Sabrina Leandro
Sabrina left a sunny island in Brazil to do a MSc in software engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. Before that, she worked at Grupos Internet, an e-learning company. Her main reason for moving to London is the live music scene, especially gigs of sweet indiepop sounds. Sabrina goes to more concerts than anyone else at Songkick!
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Daniel Lucraft
Dan has a masters in mathematics from Durham University, and was doing a PhD at Imperial College before the lure of being a soldier of Songkick got too strong. Dan is a serious Ruby enthusiast and was one of the first developers at Songkick. He also writes for a variety of open source projects and is a regular at the London Ruby User Group.
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Brooke Parrott
Brooke attended Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship, studying songwriting and piano. In May 2008, she released her debut album, Another City, on her record label, Ten til Six Records. (Available on iTunes) She plays gigs throughout London, so check out her Songkick artist page.
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Emily Sergent (User Support)
Emily studied Geography at University College London. After a short stint in marketing, she realized she wasn’t ready for the whole career thing, so she travelled around the world for 5 months. On her return, she studied for a journalism diploma at Harlow college. She reads and responds to our feedback, so if you write to us, you’re in good hands!
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Matt Wynne
Matt wisely spent the remains of his student loan on a pair of turntables in his first year of university, DJing everything from Nuyorican soul to deep Chicago house. A professional programmer for over 12 years, Matt is a self-confessed re-factoring addict and clean code evangelist. He lead a large agile team at the BBC before joining Songkick.
