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Gravesend, Kent. Since 2011.

A small team who like building things that work

We started Dev Partners because we'd watched too many businesses pay a fortune for software that didn't fit, sold by agencies who went quiet the week after launch. We're still small, on purpose.

Photos of Rob and Jason, who run Dev Partners

Hello, you get us

Rob on the left, Jase on the right. No sales team and no account managers. One of us is on every job, from the first chat to long after it goes live, and the people writing your code sit in the same small team.

Meet everyone

Rob Sherwood

Managing Director and co-founder. The one who'll probably answer the phone.

Rob grew up in Northfleet, just down the road from the office, and spent years in B2B publishing doing everything from UNIX systems to full platforms before founding Dev Partners in 2011.

He handles most of the client relationships and the awkward conversations. If something isn't going to work, he'll tell you before you spend money finding out. He's also a semi-professional musician, so you might catch him on stage somewhere in Kent. He writes about servers, security and open source at rob-sherwood.co.uk.

Jason Wheeler

Co-founder and Technical Director. Jase to everyone. The one who's already thought of the edge case you haven't.

Jase started out writing firmware for military and aviation hardware, then worked his way through enterprise ERP and fashion ecommerce. So he's usually seen your problem before.

He's the architect on our work, and he loves the integrations that look simple until they aren't. Outside work he's usually scuba diving.

Everyone else

All in-house, all in the UK. Nothing gets farmed out.

Paul Mitchell

Commercial Manager

Keeps us commercially grounded, and makes sure the work is worth what it costs.

Kevin Venn

Systems Manager

APIs, integrations and big workflows. If two systems need to talk, it's Kev. He's also our COBOL man.

Simon Torrington

Data Specialist

SQL, data models and reporting. Finds the patterns in messy data.

Steve Hargrave

Senior Developer

The back end. Databases, performance and complicated business rules.

Denver White

Front-end Developer

The parts people actually touch, and he cares about getting them right.

Julie Sherwood

Marketing and Delivery

Delivery, client communication and training. Nothing falls through the cracks.

Emily Sherwood

Creative Designer

Branding and interfaces. The reason it looks as good as it works.

What we think

Small teams beat big ones. Simple beats clever. Nobody should need a project manager to talk to their developer.

Software should belong to the people who paid for it. AI is the best thing to happen to this trade in our lifetimes, and it makes knowing what you're doing matter more, not less.

And if you've got a system that's working, you don't need us to replace it just because it's unfashionable.

Tell us what you've got

It goes straight to Rob and Jase. You'll hear back from one of us, usually the same day, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people.

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