Adam Retter

adam@evolvedbinary.com
 

Markup UK
@ Kings College, London
2025-06-07

@adamretter

• Director of Evolved Binary

  • UK - Software, Consultancy, Training, and R&D

• Co-founder and Co-owner of eXist Solutions

  • Germany - TEI Publisher software

• Software Engineer / Prolific Open Source contributor

  • eXist-db - 20 Years as Core contributor (last 9 as Main dev.)

  • RocksDB - 7 Years as RocksJava main developer

• W3C XQuery Working Group - Invited expert

• Founder of EXQuery, and creator of RESTXQ

• Enjoys Research and Development, and Snowboarding

RocksDB

• Privately Owned, and Self-Bootstrapped

• UK Registered Ltd Company, founded: April 2014

• Around 8 FTE staff (unconventional hiring)

  • Growth: 2020 (1 FTE) to 2024 (9 FTE)

• Fully Remote (UK, Italy, Germany, Algeria, Dubai, India)

• Specialisms:

  • Database Engines

  • Digital Publishing

  • Digital Humanities

  • Digital Archiving, and Archival Catalogues

  • Digital Preservation

• We currently have capacity for more projects

• We are openly seeking new challenges

• We have been security cleared for Government Projects (UK and USA)

  • UK Gov Marketplace (G-Cloud 14)

  • USA System for Award Management (Sam.gov)

• For Academia and Non-profit organisations

  • We have always, and continue to, offer generous discounts

• Come and talk to us: hello@evolvedbinary.com

“ We deeply care about the Software Communities and Open Source efforts that we are involved in.

We believe that Conferences such as Markup UK are essential to the XML Community, and we support as many such conferences as possible. ”

- Adam Retter