About us
Open Answers is a provider of premium quality digital technology services for blue chip customers and the public sector. Our specialties include building secure web applications, integrating cloud systems, and platform engineering.
For more information on the range of services Open Answers can provide follow the links under the Services tab or contact us for a chat.
Who we are
The company was founded in 1988 by Ian and Alex Bellia, initially offering Unix support services on behalf of vendors such as NCR. Over time, we expanded our services to include communications platforms, transactional middleware, and expertise in the Unix kernel and TCP/IP stack.
With the growth of the Internet in the 2000s, Open Answers played a lead role in the successful technology delivery of some of the UK's most ambitious ecommerce platforms. We established our integration and API practice in 2011, becoming one of the UK's first MuleSoft partners, supporting long-term Enterprise customers to this day. For the last 25 years we have been designing building, and managing platforms in data centres, sovereign cloud, and public cloud, accredited to the latest security standards set by NCSC. From a focussed pool of resource, we provide in-depth engineering experience at all levels of the systems delivery stack - on-premise or in the cloud using Enterprise and Open-Source technologies.
We call what we do Platform Engineering - creating and sustaining the secure foundations that accelerate digital delivery.
Ian Bellia
Managing Director
Ian Bellia founded Open Answers in 1988 following a successful career at NCR. He has overseen the growth of the company from vendor-badged support to a mature technology services organisation that can boast some of the country's most respected organisations as customers. Ian remains a passionate hands-on technology specialist. His commitment to customer service, problem ownership and desire to meet every customer need has created a culture recognised by customers. The company's organic growth is driven by word of mouth and recommendation from existing, highly satisfied customer organisations.
Jeremy Peet
Technical Director
Jeremy Peet joined Open Answers from Dixons Group plc in 1993 and has played a vital role in the company’s development, leading on many architecture, engineering, and operations engagements. His broad technical and business domain expertise, passion and experience has underpinned successful long term engagements at several customers, while his management skills have ensured the growth of the organisation’s support, consultancy and development service streams.
Richard Rawcliffe
Head of Software
Richard joined Open Answers from Ferranti-SYSECA in 1998 as senior technical consultant with broad hands-on experience. Richard's vision established the company's first LAMP-based application development practice in 2005 and he now leads a team of software engineers and product managers developing cloud-friendly enterprise apps using Node.js, Vue.js, Java, Camel, Mule, PHP, Python, C++ and more — all built following secure software development lifecycle practices and smothered in test automation. As well as serving our customers, Richard's team is also responsible for developing Open Answers' growing products portfolio.
Ralph Turner
Head of Support
Ralph Turner joined Open Answers from NCR in 1996 as an expert in the Unix kernel and open systems communications protocols. Ralph has a natural ability to share knowledge and is an experienced technical trainer. In the early 2000s he wrote the Sun Microsystems Network Internals training course, delivering it to Sun's engineers all around the world. Ralph now leads Open Answers' operations and support functions with a team of senior engineers following DevOps and Service Management best practices.
Contact us
Email
info@openanswers.co.uk
Phone
+44 (0)208 864 6999
Address
Open Answers,
1-3 Tyburn Lane
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 3AG
1-3 Tyburn Lane
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 3AG