In the sixth episode of the WHY-NI? Leadership series we are joined by Gareth Burns.
Gareth is the co-founder and CTO of Selazar in Belfast.
He teams his love and experience in technology with an honest, collaborative, and transparent approach to business strategy, managing technical departments as well as working directly with high-value clients and partners.
Stack agnostic, Gareth has built and delivered platforms using .NET, Java, AWS, Azure and many more, and he was also the founder of the Belfast .NET Development Guild. Belfast’s only .NET meetup group.
In this episode, we catch up with Gareth to learn about his journey into IT, his role as Selazar, and their plans for world domination!
Gareth gives his views on what the wider tech sector in Northern Ireland needs to do to ensure it continues to grow successfully and why NI is a great place to establish and grow a prosperous and productive tech business.
“The people, it’s always the people, the people of Northern Ireland across the board are fantastic. It’s a positive place that is moving in the right direction, it's moving forward, it’s got it’s head up. There’s a real passion and desire here to learn and be great at something, for me, Northern Ireland and the tech sector here has talent, attitude, energy!”
So, join us in the next episode as we ask the pivotal question…WHY-NI?
