Who is Graham Raddings?
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Graham Raddings is a Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, and EdTech specialist based in Lincolnshire, UK. His career is defined by a rare combination: deep practical experience in education, genuine technical expertise in enterprise software, and a creative streak that predates all of it.
Long before any professional career, Graham was creating. Painting miniature models with painstaking precision. Running Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Coding and making demos on the Commodore 64 as part of the demo group SXPRESS — cracking games, building demos, making music on the Amiga 500. He self-published Apocalypse Fanzine in 1991, before the internet made that easy. Creativity was always the constant; the medium just kept changing.
His formal education took him through Creative Media at college — music videos, motion graphics, graphic design — and then into Film & Code at university, where he trained in filmmaking and cinematography alongside teaching himself HTML entirely independently. That combination of creative discipline and technical self-sufficiency became the blueprint for everything that followed.
Graham began his professional career in digital media — building web presences for newspapers entering the digital age, designing interfaces for interactive television, and creating public-facing kiosk installations. He then founded 029 Ltd, a web design and development company that delivered hundreds of digital projects, with a specialism in bespoke educational software — an early signal of where his career was heading.
After a decade as a Lecturer in Interactive Media and Games Design, Graham moved into the EdTech industry — taking ten years of frontline educational experience into a solutions engineering role, eventually rising to Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, leading a team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Away from work, Graham is the co-creator and co-host of Zapped to the Past — a podcast celebrating retro gaming and technology culture. He still reviews Commodore 64 games from the classic Zzap!64 magazine. He produces original music under the name xussia on SoundCloud — a thread running from Amiga tracker files in the early 90s to releases today. He is passionate about travel, and his love of music has never wavered. This site — grahamraddings.co.uk — is his official online presence.
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