UK based Software Engineering, App Development | NorthLink Digital 

NorthLink Digital

Our tight-knit team of web & app developers, digital designers and cyber security experts work from our office in the North East of England. They each come from different learning backgrounds, which gives them a unique perspective and insights at different stages of projects. We are a relatively small but swiftly growing team always on the lookout for new talent to recruit. 

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I am the founder of NorthLink Digital - an IT Consultancy and Digital Agency with offices in London and the Tees Valley.

NorthLink Digital (formerly trading as Bradbourne Digital) started trading in 2016 and has had successful engagements with a number of high profile international organisations. Our resources work either on-site or remotely from our dedicated office space in the North East of England.

Engagements have included programme managing a large scale regulatory programme (MiFID ii), managing a Digital Transformation programme for a Tier 1 bank, supplying the entire development capability for a FinTech startup building a mobile-first, cloud-first Wealth Management app, and lots more.

I have 20 years of experience delivering major (multi-year, multi-million dollar) programmes of change within an investment banking environment across a range of Fixed Income businesses including Rates, Credit, FX and Commodities, working in Front Office Programme Management and “Head Of” roles with Front to Back responsibility.

Digital Design : NorthLink Digital can provide Visual Design services, User Experience (UX) design & rapid prototyping of your web site or mobile application. Our team are also experts in WordPress, Content Management Systems and eCommerce solutions.

Full Stack Development : NorthLink Digital offer enterprise standard full stack development of your web or mobile application. Our developers specialise in HTML5/CSS/Javascript/React/React-Native for front end development, along with NodeJS and Java Microservices for the back end. However our adaptable team are happy to work with other technologies such as .Net where needed.

IT Consulting : We specialise in Programme Management or Delivery Management within Digital Transformation programmes, Regulatory Initiatives, Financial Services and Commodities Trading. Also contact us for help on Outsourcing or Offshoring.

Graham Orrell

Phil is the CTO of NorthLink Digital and oversees all technical development from our Tees Valley office.

Phil began his career as a Games Developer, writing mobile games for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7, before moving into more business-focussed software development across a range of industry sectors such as Fintech, HR, Telecoms and Retail.

He takes a pragmatic approach to software development, believing that there is no single best tool or methodology to use for a given job. 

Technology skillset includes; React, Node, React Native, Unity3D, Xamarin, Cocos2dx, Native iOS/Android, XNA, Alexa Skills, Cardboard VR, ARKit and many others.

Phil Smith

Nathan is an Oxford graduate with over 20 years of international IT experience having worked in London, Singapore and Tokyo.  

The majority of his experience has been within Global Markets IT and Operations IT departments of Tier 1 investment banks, having had the opportunity to lead departments of over 100 people with multi-million dollar budgets.

He has gained expertise spanning development, support, business analysis, project/programme management, leadership and commercial/vendor management.

In his role as NorthLink Digital’s Programme Director, he has oversight over all ongoing client projects and has ownership of our internal processes and tooling to ensure projects are run efficiently and transparently.

Nathan is also available to NorthLink Digital clients who have a need for an experienced Project/Programme Manager to join them on an interim basis to help deliver critical pieces of work.

Nathan Gardner

Charlotte works closely with the CEO to ensure the smooth running of all aspects of NorthLink Digital.

Charlotte is an experienced Executive Assistant who has previously spent eight years living in the Middle East where she worked as an Executive Assistant at an Oil and Gas company.

Prior to this Charlotte worked in a variety of administrative roles within the UK.

Charlotte El Skaf

Jared is a University of Pennsylvania graduate with over 20 years of international experience having held several leadership and senior management roles within big 4 consultancy, Investment Banking, Fintech / start-up, and Information Technology sectors having worked in New York, London, South Africa and Munich.

The majority of his experience has been within Global Markets Front Office and Finance Markets Planning & Controlling.  He has focussed on large business transformation programmes and high impact IT and business change projects of varying size, complexity and across multiple geographic locations in response to operational and regulatory driven challenges.

He has gained expertise spanning business analysis, project/programme management, internal audit / regulatory advisory, leadership and commercial/vendor management.

Jared is part of NorthLink Digital’s Associate Network and is an experienced cross-industry business accelerator and change agent we draw on for various strategic engagements.  He is available to NorthLink Digital clients who have a need for an experienced Project/Programme Manager to join them on an interim basis to help deliver critical pieces of work.

Jared Frost

Abanoab is one of our developers. He studied software engineering at BSc level then went on to study computing for his master's, graduating with First Class honours.

He has 4 years of commercial experience and is proficient in Node/C# backend development, Vue/React for frontend development and MySQL / MSSQL for database storage and Azure cloud services.


Abanoab Saad

A full-stack developer with experience in web and application development, Danni works with Javascript, Typescript and GoLang using NodeJS and ReactJS predominately.

Before starting her career in tech, Danni had a role in marketing and PR for a local ports and logistics company, after completing her Leadership and Management degree at Teesside University. She then undertook a coding bootcamp through Northcoders to learn the skills to become a Developer and found her first position in the industry with NorthLink Digital.

As a Teesside local, Danni is keen to support young people in the area. She mentors our own university interns, whilst outside of work helps with a local Brownie pack. She also joined a mentoring programme to help inspire and empower girls.

Danni Young

Laura is a full-stack developer with experience in web and application development. 

She works predominantly with Javascript, Typescript, NodeJS and ReactJS.Before joining NorthLink Digital, Laura graduated from Teesside University and has three years experience working with tech companies from Tees Valley.

Technology skillset also includes: Python, C#, F# and .NET framework

Laura Chatham

Marley studied web development at Teesside University before joining us at Northlink Digital.

During his A-Level studies, his IT course featured application development, web development, and general IT-related topics, but ultimately decided he enjoyed building websites above all else for its blend of design and programming.

He has worked with NodeJS, Angular, Vue (NuxtJS), React (NextJS), Firebase, HTML, CSS, and the Yii2 PHP framework.

Marley Dabb

Full-stack developer.

Harry currently works with JavaScript but have knowledge in C#, HTML, CSS, Python and SQL.

He has previous experience in freelance development, working closely with clients to design and develop their company webpages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

He also programs mobile games in Unity3D and C# in his spare time.

Harry Render

Alex joined the team as an apprentice software developer. He recently graduated from Northumbria University where he studied computer science. 

Alex Lee

Leon is a First Class History graduate who also has 18 months of post-graduate experience in Software Development.

He will primarily be working alongside our CEO 

 on Business Development activities to continue driving our growth - but will also be undergoing on-the-job software development training on our preferred tech stack.

Meet the team