Lydtech Team

A team's value is greater than the sum of its parts

Meet the team

Rob Hemmings
Principal Engineer
A founding principal, Rob brings nearly 40 years of software engineering experience, with deep roots in financial services — from Barclays and British Airways through to Visa and Velo Payments — as well as defence, having spent five years at Lockheed Martin. Rob remains hands-on in client delivery, bringing that breadth of regulated-industry experience directly to bear on engagements rather than managing from the sidelines.
James Powell
Director - Principal Engineer
James’ wealth of delivery experience across financial services, central government, and regulated consumer platforms — with notable stints at Morgan Stanley, HSBC Investment Bank, and RBS Mobile Banking sitting alongside his Lydtech work at Surevine and Northwestern Mutual. James operates at the intersection of architecture and hands-on engineering, giving clients a principal who can both set technical direction and remain accountable for the code that gets shipped.
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What makes us different

Lydtech started with a simple observation: the best work we'd ever done had been with people we trusted and genuinely enjoyed working with. The founding team were friends before they were colleagues — people who had worked together in previous roles and knew from experience that the quality of the relationships in a team shows up directly in the quality of the outcomes. We built Lydtech around that idea rather than around a service line or a market opportunity.

That foundation shapes everything. It shapes the culture we maintain as the team grows, the care we take in the engagements we take on, and the way we show up for clients. Trust within a team isn't a nice-to-have, it’s a must — trust and honesty are the conditions under which hard architectural problems get solved, an environment in which someone can say the difficult thing in a design review rather than let a bad decisions through, is the environment that produces the greatest outcomes.

It also shapes how we've approached the moment AI is creating for the industry. We're not retrofitting AI onto a general consulting proposition. We're applying the same architecture discipline we've always used — event-driven systems, micro-services, quality-first approach — to the integration challenge AI actually presents: getting models reliably embedded into production systems that operate under real compliance and operational constraints.

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Trust Is Everything

One of our guiding principles is that to work well, you have to feel well, safe, and happy. Our teams are comprised of folks who all share this belief, and who know that not only will they work happier, but the results are greater

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