Paddy Byers
Co-founder And CTO at Meshpoint Ltd
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaddy Byers is a veteran technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Ably, where he owns the real-time infrastructure behind a global messaging platform. With nearly 40 years building tech businesses and 14 years of hands-on startup experience, he blends deep research pedigree (PhD in theoretical computer science) with practical engineering across embedded systems, JavaScript, Java, C/C++ and Node.js. He has founded multiple companies and led R&D and standards work—most notably creating WebVM and helping shape OMTP BONDI/WAC—demonstrating a rare ability to turn protocol and standards work into shipping products. Comfortable at both executive and implementation levels, he has run engineering organizations of 50+ and repeatedly moved ideas from prototype to market. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a long track record of dependable, security-conscious systems in transport, telecoms and cloud realtime services.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MA Mathematics, MA Mathematics at University of CambridgePhD Theoretical Computer Science, PhD Theoretical Computer Science at University of Surrey
Github Skills (140)
realtime10
nodejs-application10
windows10
node-redis10
streaming10
javascript10
client-library10
linux10
clojure10
sdk10
rest10
swift10
js10
nodejs-client10
database10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ably-forks/Java-WebSocket
Apr 2014 - Oct 2019
A barebones WebSocket client and server implementation written in 100% Java.
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 7 months
javawebsocket-client
paddybyers/node_redis
Jul 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
nodejsredisnoderedis-client
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