Al Sutton was a major contributor in developing OUYA.Al has been involved in a wide range of things, from an interactive TV system from TwoWayTV and developing systems on Psion handhelds using SMS to things like ticket bookings and sending and receiving Emails.

Al has been contributing to the Skills Matter community for many years, in many different ways. He regularly speaks at Skills Matter events and conferences, including at Droidcon, at Londroid meet ups and Ouya meet ups and at Skills Matter's In-the-brain series. In addition to his support as a speaker, he has contributed lots of other great stuff, incredibly valuable to our community, his fabulous Droidcon app being a good example.

In the late 90s’ Al started working in London for Chase Manhattan bank, initially looking after their developement infrastructure in London, and then moving on to looking after their DR facilities for Europe and become part of a global security architecture group. During this time Al didn’t leave his development roots behind, becoming involved in a number of projects including an attempt to port the Mozilla/Netscape browser to Java

After the turn of the century Al spent a few years working for start-ups doing a range of design, development, and management jobs working on high volume, high availability systems involved in the telecoms and financial sectors. In 2005, he ended up working for Reuters after they took over a company he had been working for.

At the end of 2005 Al left the land of employed work and started working for himself. At the end of 2006, he co-founded Enterprise Data Safe Limited based around a corporate password safe solution he had developed. Since then he's been responsible for all sales, development, and support activities within the company, growing sales and profits without the need for VC or bank funding.

In late 2008 he founded Funky Android Ltd. which focuses on developing sites and software for the Google Android operating system.