It's all about the people 

We've got the perfect blend of technical and creative talent here at Kyan, everything required to see your project through from start to finish.

We believe in web standards and accessibility, and we're always exploring the latest technologies to ensure your site works well and looks great.

Building relationships with our clients and understanding their needs is the key to how we deliver solutions that always exceed expectation.

Kyan - The Company

Kyan is a web design company based near Cranleigh, Surrey. We used to be called Kyanmedia, but decided that was a bit of a mouthful so it's just Kyan now.

Get in touch with Kyan 

Work for us

We're always on the look out for people with creative flair and an eye for detail. Send your CV and URLs to ...

NB. These are full-time positions not freelance or contract work, so UK residents only please.

The People

  • Gareth Adams

    Gareth Adams

    Developer

    Resident cynic and cheesy music fan, Gareth defines technical oneupmanship by the amount of screen inches on his desk. In his spare time he's also a bit of a pool shark and amateur poker player.

  • Phil Balchin

    Phil Balchin

    Developer

    Phil dislikes talking to other people about himself in the third person. Cricket fan and Mac-evangelist you won't separate him from TextMate till you pry it from his cold dead hands.

  • Nick Linnell

    Nick Linnell

    Developer

    Nick, male, 30 ish, Aries, hopeful father of future England all-rounder. WLTM autonomous open source robot written in Ruby distributed under the GPLv3 license, but accepts that this is unlikely.

  • Piers H Palmer

    Piers H Palmer

    Director

    Piers has a strange feeling that not only is the universe a whole lot stranger than we think, but is most probably a whole lot stranger than we can think.

  • Pete Orme

    Pete Orme

    Designer

    When not eating pork pie with salad cream, Pete can be found rustling deep in Photoshop Forest or skiing in the mountains of CSS. A self confessed Cheerio's addict and a cultured right foot.

  • Laurent Maguire

    Laurent Maguire

    Director

    Laurent prefers not to sit at his desk as its always a paperwork and coffee cup mountain, instead he wanders the office with his laptop offering helpful advice to everyone whether they want it or not.

  • Gavin Shinfield

    Gavin Shinfield

    Art Director

    Likes:  Helvetica, bananas and Dragons' Den.
    Dislikes:  Arial, carrots and Eastenders.
    Job:  Web design, CSS monkey and running Kyan.
    To relax:  Loud music in a dark room.

  • Paul Sturgess

    Paul Sturgess

    Developer

    Paul spends his days carving images, writing stylesheets & coding in Ruby on Rails. He is an Arsenal fan, an amateur photographer and fills the office jukebox with as much soul as he can.

  • Steven Thompson

    Steven Thompson

    Developer

    Steve is justifiably proud of his northern (okay, Midlands) roots. Quick off the mark, it's all about speed for him, by land, by sea or when powering through reams of PHP.

  • Steven Wake

    Steven Wake

    Developer

    Steven is the baldest member of the office. He is a geek, vegetarian, indie music lover and a slipper wearer. When not hacking out code, Steven can be found playing games, watching films or laughing.

  • Matt Hamm

    Matt Hamm

    Designer

    Matt Hamm is a design guru who loves South America, the web, sci-fi, cinema, design, animation, illustration, typography, taking photos, real ale and playing guitar.

  • Scott Evans

    Pete Roome

    Developer

    Eager to master Ruby, Rails and Web Design; Pete takes great pride in building smart systems with great interfaces. Pete is also Gods gift to DJing and fantatsises about playing to millions globally.

  • Robin Whittleton

    Robin Whittleton

    Developer

    Robin gets off on working around browser bugs, which is worrying. Back in the real world, he's found cooking increasingly interesting food and making vague attempts to become a tidier person.

  • Could this be you?

    Could this be you?

    Web professional

    If you are a talented individual and feel passionate about making the web work and are keen to work in a challenging and fun environment, we would love to hear from you.