About AirBlade Software Ltd

Web Applications

We specialise in Ruby on Rails web applications. We take care of everything, from the front end to the back end, from DNS to HTTP, and all points between. We love creating a clean, accessible look, and use open standards to do it. We know XHTML and AJAX, CSS and JavaScript, Ruby, Rails and SQL.

Business Hosting

We offer business-grade hosting on a platform tuned for Ruby on Rails. We use top of the range servers, best-practice deployment techniques, and automated monitoring tools to ensure your business can rely on us. We have extensive experience of keeping business-critical web applications up and running 24 hours per day.

Email

We can set up a powerful, professional and reliable (99.997% uptime) email service for your domain. Advanced spam filtering, Blackberry compatibility, integration with almost any desktop email client, web access, and so on.

We also provide a bulk email campaign service, with analytics and reporting that let you track exactly how your mailshots went down with your customers.

The Company

AirBlade is a privately-held company based in Buckinghamshire, UK. It was founded in February 2006.

Andy Stewart

Andy Stewart

Director

Andy has been delivering production web applications since early 2000. He has a Master’s Degree in Information Engineering from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a scholarship.

Before launching AirBlade, he:

  • Worked in signals intelligence for the UK government. As the Technical Lead of a team of 7 software engineers, he worked on web applications of direct benefit to the UK's national security.
  • Worked as a Senior Software Engineer at one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, writing business-critical software which has been running in production for years. Billions, if not trillions, of dollars of trades have flowed through his software.
  • Was technical leader on Reuters’ first ever web-delivered news feed. This was a site for the international disaster relief community, and won a European journalism award.
  • Spent six months at Razorfish, one of the original internet consultancies, observing how not to run a company. This was most educational!

Away from work, he lived for a time on a tiny desert island in the Sulu Sea. He travelled from London to Hong Kong by train (but flew home). He captained the Cambridge University Water Polo team in 1999. He loves windsurfing but falls in rather often.