Joachim Simmonds

I started in tech at 17. Not a bootcamp, not a degree. I just got deep into it and kept going. By my early twenties I was building full systems from scratch: infrastructure, back-end architecture, automation pipelines, client-facing products. I learned by doing, and over sixteen years that compounded into something real. I'm 33 now, based in London, and I've spent the better part of my career building products for other people, from small startups to larger organisations that needed serious technical work done properly. Vantyx is the first platform that's entirely mine, and it's built from a position I've earned, not assumed. My sister has been running a mentoring platform for over 20 years. She knows that world inside out, the safeguarding responsibilities, the frameworks that actually work, the difference between a platform that looks good and one that genuinely helps people. Between her experience in the field and mine in technology, Vantyx carries a level of combined knowledge that most products in this space simply don't have. We didn't build this to follow a trend. We built it because we understood the problem well enough to know what the solution actually needed to look like.