Summary
Sid Haniff is a seasoned data architect and entrepreneur with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and building apps and products that unlock insights from complex data across cloud and on-premise environments. As Co-Founder of Uptake Health and Datasoc, he blends product-focused engineering with distributed and decentralized platform design, drawing on industry experience in healthcare, finance, telecoms and travel. Previously a senior solutions architect at Deutsche Bank and UBS, he has a strong track record translating regulatory and enterprise constraints into scalable data models and pipelines. He values creating open, honest and friendly team cultures where colleagues can flourish, and brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to technical leadership. Based in Brighton, Sid pairs a philosophical BA with deep systems experience that spans startups, large global organisations and open-source initiatives—an unusual mix that helps him see both technical trade-offs and human impacts.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Philosophy, BA (Hons), Philosophy at University of Kent