Meet the Hindsight team

Alan Parkinson 

CEO & Founder

At work: I wear many hats within the organization, but having coached BDD for 8 years, I use my experience to steer the development of Behave Pro. Other roles include Head of Engineering, managing key partnerships, and nudging the company culture.

At home: Outside of work my main priority is family, and I seem to spend a lot of that time building railways for my children. My other passion is cooking; my two signature dishes are pancetta, mushroom and chilli pizza, and slow roasted lamb shoulder.

At team lunch: I’m a fan of roulette chicken wings with the chance of getting an extra hot one. If I don’t want something so messy then chicken thighs with extra hot sauce and cooling super greens salad is my go-to order.

George McCreadie

Technical Lead

At work: I spend most of my time building new functionality for Behave Pro based on colleague and customer feedback, ensuring the user experience is as smooth as possible. I also support and supervise the rest of the development team, whether it’s on the backend or the frontend.

At home: I enjoy spending time with my girlfriend, I’m often helping her take care of her magnificent (but slightly scary) horses. I also enjoy fixing things, so if it’s not code on one of my own projects, it’s something DIY related. I follow Liverpool F.C. which tends to keep Jack quiet on Mondays.

At team lunch: Butterfly burger, medium (hot if there’s milk on standby), along with creamy mash and corn on the cob.

Louise Chu

Chief Operations Officer

At work: I take care of the business side of things so the developers can focus on the important bits.

At home: I’m a keen cake decorator and martial artist, though they both take a backseat to family life!

At team lunch: I like my meat on the bone. Sides will depend on how I’m feeling on the day!

Gülistan ‘Rose’ Boylu

Developer

At work: I mainly work on the front end for both cloud and server products. Recently, I have started to contribute to the server side of Behave Pro Cloud with small contributions. I'm very passionate about improving user experience by designing new flows for our customers and I'm always inspired by our users to continuously improve our products.

At home: I’m an early bird and I start my day with yoga or short walks at the park near my home. I enjoy sketching and drawing with my tablet before I go to bed. One of my main purposes in my life is encouraging more women in the tech industry so I'm mentoring other women in my free time. Also, I love to spend some time in the kitchen trying new recipes with my husband.

Team lunch: Chicken butterfly and salad is my favourite…

Proud to be a member of Pledge 1%

Pledge 1% is a global corporate philanthropy movement that is creating a new normal in which the act of ‘giving back’ is integrated into the DNA of companies of all sizes. Spearheaded by Atlassian, Rally, Salesforce and Tides, Pledge 1% is already empowering over 1,500 companies in 40 countries to make a difference to charitable causes of their choice. We are proud to be a member of the Pledge 1% movement and have risen to the challenge to pledge 1% of our product and employee time to charitable causes.

“We are still a small company (especially by comparison to the likes of Atlassian, who is a partner of ours!) but this doesn’t mean we can’t start giving back to the community. Pledging 1% is achievable and the idea works well because the actual contributions will scale as we grow as a company,” comments Alan Parkinson, Founder and CEO of Hindsight Software.

Hindsight employees have a range of skills and interests on both a professional and personal level, and it’s exciting to support each other in donating our time to lend those skills where they can be of use. In terms of donating our product to charitable causes, we operate in a niche market, but many charities have in-house agile software development teams and our products can certainly be useful to them by helping them get software development right, first time. We offer a completely FREE Behave Pro license to registered charities and non-profits that are non-government, non-academic and non-commercial. Find out more