Andrew James Stanford-Clark is a British information technology research engineer, specialising in telemetry and publish/subscribe messaging.

He also serves on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) peer review college and regularly delivers public talks.

Stanford-Clark has been granted 11 patents and, as of 2014[update] has 45 pending, as well as 30 additional invention disclosures published in IBM Technology Journal and IP.com.

Stanford-Clark has also taken an active role in mentoring others and played a part in accelerating innovation, highlighted by his involvement in an IBM student scheme called Extreme Blue.

[1][10][11] MQTT is a specialised protocol enabling telemetry or lightweight sensor and mobile systems to provide information to computer programs via a publish/subscribe mechanism.