FLAX & TEAL LIMITED - Key Persons


Ellery Ames

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Software Engineer
Ellery joins our team as an experienced Scientific Software Engineer. He has a background in physics and mathematics, with a PhD from the University of Oregon in Physics. He has experience with computational physics, engineering, mathematical modelling, geo-metric analysis, Python, C/C++ and Kubernetes!

Jana Lorencova

Job Titles:
  • Information Scientist
Jana has joined our team as an Information Scientist, specialising in data cataloguing, adminstration and has an MA in International Relations and Politics from the University of Aberdeen.

Jim Fitzsimons

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Specialist
Jim is a contract Business Development Specialist who works with us and specifically focuses on our work in the Republic of Ireland.

Kamen Dimitrov

Job Titles:
  • Junior Developer
Kamen is our junior software developer. He completed studying Software Engineering in Sofia and has experience with Java, Python, Rust and Go programming languages and back-end development.

Phil Weir - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Founder and Director of Flax & Teal Ltd
Founder and director of Flax & Teal Ltd., Phil is also lead architect on our projects and services, as an experienced scientist and web developer. Phil has a PhD in Python-based mathematical simulation, and is one of Northern Ireland's qualified Kubernetes trainer. Phil has successfully delivered Python and Kubernetes training, and also has experience working with geo-spatial data. He has presented at PyCon New Zealand (2012) on numerical analysis, FEniCS 2016 (scientific Python) on web-based simulations, and at the Open Data Science Conference 2017 in London on web-based, on-demand data analysis.

Sharon Ingram

Job Titles:
  • Cloud Architect
Sharon joins our team as an experienced cloud engineer and certified Azure Solutions Architecture and DevOps Expert. She has over 10 years experience within this role and adds to our cloud engineering and computational skill-sets. Sharon also has experience with Kubernetes, .NET, Oracle, Javascript and C-Sharp.

Shauna Fitzsimons

Job Titles:
  • Data Support Technician
Shauna adds to our team in our data analysis and supporting project management tasks. Shauna works on licensing and compliance to ensure the highest standards are met.