Announcing the shortlist for the DevOps Excellence Awards 2025

Congratulations to our finalists

We are pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's DevOps Excellence Awards.

The Computing DevOps Excellence Awards honour the products, projects and individuals making software success happen. This year's finalists embody both innovation and delivery, taking their ideas through to a successful end state with satisfied customers and provable returns.

We will be honouring the finalists' success at the awards ceremony on Wednesday 12th March, at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in the City of London. Attendees will enjoy an evening of celebration and networking, with a drinks reception, live entertainment and of course the awards ceremony itself.

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After careful consideration and rigorous evaluation, our panel of judges has selected the following companies and individuals for their exemplary contributions:

Product Awards

**NEW!** Best DevOps Cloud Services

• Platform Engineering Team - Travis Edgar
• Couchbase Capella
• PagerDuty - PagerDuty Operations Cloud
• Sandhata Technologies - Redefining IAM

**NEW!** Best Monitoring and Performance Tool

• Komodor - Komodor Platform
• Appdome -ThreatScope and Threat-Events
• Gearset - Flow Error Monitoring

Best DevOps Security Tool

• AppViewX - AVX ONE Certificate Lifecycle Management for Kubernetes
• Accedia JSC - DevSecOps Framework for Financial Fraud Prevention
• Appdome - Appdome Mobile Defense Platform
• Aqua Security - Aqua CNAPP
• Perforce Static Analysis - Static Analysis Perforce Software
• Harness - Harness Security Testing Orchestration
• Checkmarx - Checkmarx One

Best Continuous Delivery Product

• Lloyds Banking Group, LBG - OCPz CD Pipeline
• Appdome - Appdome Mobile Defense Platform
• Perforce - BlazeMeter by Perforce
• Harness - Harness Continuous Delivery and GitOps|

DevOps Tool / Product of the Year

• Honeycomb - Honeycomb.io
• env0 - env0
• Gearset - Gearset Pipelines

Best AI/MLOps Tool

• Accedia JSC - PetCare AIOps: Scaling veterinary care with intelligent automation
• White Label Loyalty - White Label Loyalty
• PagerDuty - PagerDuty AIOps

Individual / Company Awards

DevOps Vendor of the Year

• Perforce Software
• Gearset
• Harness
• Sandhata Technologies

Best DevOps Team

• HeadChannel Lloyds Banking Group, LBG - OCPz DevOps Team
• Hymans Robertson - Continuous Improvement of Releases (CIR) team
• Gearset
• IBM - IBM Innovation Hub

DevOps Rising Star of the Year

• Callum Hester – Lowell
• Mariam Triki – Capco
• Sean Van Sprundel – Capco
• David Ogbonnah – Capco
• Nicole Ghessen – Version 1
• Swapna Alladi – Version 1
• Alistair Dalgleish - Hymans Robertson
• Aidan Graham – IBM
• Simona Stefanescu – IBM
• Holli Yu – IBM
• Emily Smith – Zaizi

DevOps Leader of the Year

• Sprydon Maniotis – Capco
• Richard Dalziel – Hymans Robertson
• Sitaram Gopal – Tata Consultancy and Services
• John Daisley – IBM
• Sam Rowell – IBM Consulting (UK)

DevOps Professional of the Year

• Spyridon Maniotis – Capco
• Jacob Tidridge – IBM
• Huzefa Ishtiaq – IBM
• Hasitha Hettiarachchi – Zaizi
• Swapna Alladi - Version 1

Best DevOps Services Company

• Vention
• Accedia JSC
• KPS UK

Project Awards

Best AI/Automation Project

• Docusign - Petabyte-scale blob migration for AI-powered insights at Docusign
• Bridgeworks -PORTrockIT
• Coherent Solutions - Coherent Solutions and MaxContact collaborate to introduce GenAI to cloud-based contact centres

Best DevOps Transformation

• Lloyds Banking Group - LBG - OCPz DevOps Transformation
• Vodafone UK In Partnership with Sandhata Technologies - DevOps transformation with SIFT

Best Use of Cloud-Native Technologies

• National Energy System Operator - The Open Balancing Platform
• Morgan Stanley
• Godel Technologies and Trupanion - CI/CD Milestone Release: Paving the way for innovation and excellence

DevOps Project of the Year

• Lloyds Banking Group - LBG - OCPz Project
• National Energy System Operator - The Open Balancing Platform
• Vodafone UK In Partnership With Sandhata Technologies - Revamping Mozart

Best Implementation of DevSecOps

• HM Revenue and Customs - Data Platform Services Core Engineering Platform
• Vizniti Solutions Limited - Vizniti Solutions Limited
• Synk - Snyk & Jaguar Land Rover
• National Energy System Operator - The Open Balancing Platform

Join us as we honour these remarkable individuals and businesses and their contributions to technology by reserving your place at the event now.