Meet the Hiyield team

Matt started in tech 19 years ago rising from a Junior Developer, to Lead Developer and then CTO. He’s worked at various tech startups, bringing digital products to life, helping raise investment, and loving the startup journey. With insights into starting and running businesses, he founded Hiyield, creating an agency around his experience, forming where we are today.

Laura is our project manager mastermind, making sure all projects run smoothly. She is the glue that brings together our clients, designers and technical teams. With a background in digital marketing management, she has lots of experience working on digital project briefs and understanding user requirements. Laura loves travelling, camping, and adventuring around Cornwall with her family.

Entrenched in the startup lifestyle, Nick is a strategic thinker and a pixel perfect designer. From beautiful branding to seamless UX & UI design. He’s our lead creative that connects the tech with a user-centred design. Out of the office, he’s a dad to a little one, husband and adventurer.

A keen gamer from a young age, Ben introduced himself into coding. He took the educational route to college and then onto university, getting a BSC Computing Degree. Matt met Ben at Cornwall geeks and took him under his wing to work on a digital product startup. Ever since Ben and Matt have worked together, building up a comprehensive portfolio of work. Ben lives in Cornwall with his wife and dog Thor.

An undergraduate degree in physics to a master’s in astrophysics. Mike started coding during his studies where he wrote a program for a dynamic harmonic oscillator. From then on, he learnt how to code, working on many complex products and moving into a senior developer position. In his spare time, Mike loves to cook and going on weekend adventures, either checking out a place to eat or finding Cornwall’s hidden gems.

Rach combines creativity with a first-class tech skillset. From a young age, she enjoyed spending her time drawing, painting and being outside. Later in life, Rach was inspired to start a new career in tech, achieving a First Class BSc Degree in Applied Computing Technologies. Rach is a people-person and a valued member of the Hiyield team, broadening her knowledge whilst helping clients on projects. When she’s not at the HQ, Rach works hard at the gym and entertains a hyperactive spaniel.

Callum is a self-taught developer. He rapidly learnt how to develop pixel perfect websites specialising in WordPress after having created a website for his girlfriend in 2018. In his spare time, you’ll often see him cruising on a paddleboard, playing football or on a coastal walk with his dogs.

Emil is our Marketing Lead. His roots lie with being creative as an Adobe master, and always on hand to take the perfect picture or edit together in an engaging video. He’s a generator of new ideas, bringing our brand to life and creating partnerships with exciting startups and businesses. He moved down to Cornwall after university for a great work-life balance. When he’s not at the office, he’s running, taking photos, making films, or on an outdoor adventure.

Dan, stepped into the world of development to create games with Microsoft XNA. While studying psychology and neuroscience at Plymouth University, his passion accelerated; building a program for a lab event-related potential (ERP) experiment. He continued to level up becoming a front end React developer. Today, he’s a core part of Hiyield.

From hacking computers as a teenager, Jamie has been learning on the job and in his spare time for the past seven years. He’s an expert in JavaScript, with an interest in modern coding standards, Vue.js, Node.js and serverless architecture. Cornish born and raised, you’ll see Jamie surfing, working on his allotment, foraging for wild mushrooms, or coding side projects.

Neil’s worked in the digital industry for five years and has developed a unique set of skills, combining both the Commercial and UX & Design worlds. With a passion for UX and understanding human behaviour, Neil uses his empathetic nature to deliver client projects that are user and people-centric. When there’s time to unwind it’s either on the guitar, beavering away on the next project in his garage/workshop or keeping fit at the gym. He’s also a human climbing frame to a lively 3-year-old where he lives with his wife in Dorset.

Justin started to love technology at a young age when introduced to a family computer, becoming engrossed in software. This lead to Justin’s world revolving around tech, from robotics, 3D printing, virtual reality, game development and website development. When he’s not learning tech, he’s down the gym or getting in his steps outside in the Cornish Coast.

Sam has always had a strong desire to design and build from a childhood full of Lego and K’nex. Later in life, he traded the bricks and sticks for web development! Today he builds beautiful websites and more, giving users some of the best experiences on the web. He’s an illustrator at heart, digitally doodling on his graphic tablet creating imaginative illustrations. If he’s not doing this you can find him kicking back with a fancy flavoured stout and tasty meal.

You could be the next member to join our team. Have a look at our careers page for more information…