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Redgate creates ingeniously simple software to help data professionals get the most value out of any database, anywhere, through the provision of end-to-end Database DevOps. We help over 800,000 people in every kind of industry across the world, from small and medium sized businesses to 92% of companies in the Fortune 100.

Gareth Bragg

3 July 2017

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Gareth Bragg

3 July 2017

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Who’d want to be a coach?

About a year ago, Redgate introduced a new role to support our development teams: Coaches. The idea’s simple. Our development teams are made up of software engineers and UX designers, who make great products. They can do that on their own, but many people are used to agile experts (like scrum masters or project... Read more

Anuradha Deshpande and Alex Bartley

8 May 2017

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Anuradha Deshpande and Alex Bartley

8 May 2017

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A day in the life of … a Product Support Engineer

When someone buys software from Redgate, it’s often not the end of the story. It can be the beginning of a journey because support is frequently part of the package. There’s good reason for that too because while we pride ourselves on developing software that’s ingeniously simple to use, that simplicity is deceptive. We... Read more

Product Support Engineer

Fiona Gazeley

2 May 2017

Fiona Gazeley

2 May 2017

How my sabbatical benefited both Redgate and me

I consider myself to be really lucky to work for a company that values its employees. One of the ways it shows this is by offering staff a six week paid sabbatical for every five years we’ve worked here. Yes, you heard me right – after just five years! And yes – paid! Simon... Read more

sabbatical

Jon Boardman

6 April 2017

Jon Boardman

6 April 2017

Applying design principles to your UX portfolio

As with any creative role, managers who are hiring for User Experience positions will often sift through a vast number of CVs and portfolios before a candidate even makes it through the door. As a potential employee it’s your job to impress, sell yourself to the company and most importantly give some insight into... Read more

UX design. User Experience Designer

Ben Rees

23 March 2017

Ben Rees

23 March 2017

Five ways we’ve implemented Agile marketing at Redgate

Implementing Agile working practices reminds me of Communism – if we just did it properly, everything would work perfectly! All projects would be a dream to work on, all deliveries would be early, the customers would get exactly what they needed, and so on. However, perfection is the enemy of progress. We’ve implemented an... Read more

23 February 2017

23 February 2017

A glimpse into the culture of our software development teams

When anyone visits Redgate HQ in Cambridge and takes a tour of the software development teams, their reaction is invariably the same. They’re surprised at the dress code (we don’t have one), they’re mystified by the walls plastered with Post-it notes, and they’re intrigued by the giant bean bags and cake everywhere. That’s the... Read more

19 January 2017

19 January 2017

How I landed a UX gig at Redgate

I moved to Cambridge UK in the summer of 2015. A bit of an Anglophile, it’s lived up to all expectations every Jane Austen book gave me of England. A hop, skip, and a jump away from London — it’s everything you need in a city, with its beautiful colleges and the River Cam as the... Read more

Fraser Smith

25 November 2016

Fraser Smith

25 November 2016

Reflections from a UX guinea pig: my internship at Redgate

Redgate have been running a hugely successful intern program for a number of years now. Last summer, they looked to expand on the existing program and include an intern position in User Experience. This is where I come in. I was Redgate’s first UX intern – the guinea pig, if you will. With no... Read more

Mark Cheverton

5 September 2016

Mark Cheverton

5 September 2016

Time to down tools and pick up some new ideas

At Redgate, we spend a lot of time developing ingeniously simple solutions to very complicated problems, typically those faced by database developers. It’s hard work but it’s rewarding work too and our software is in use by many of the world’s biggest companies (and a lot of smaller ones too). Down tools Every now... Read more

Dan Nolan

24 March 2016

Dan Nolan

24 March 2016

From Release Engineer to ReadyRoll founder and Redgate Product Manager

ReadyRoll started as a small side project in late 2010 while I was working in the financial services industry. For many years I had been working as a Release Engineer, handling the deployment of all of the company’s line of business applications. Above all else, putting together the database part of release was the... Read more

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