Paris Buttfield-Addison
Head Of Product, Research, And Analytics at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolParis Buttfield-Addison is a multidisciplinary technology leader and creative technologist with 14+ years building games, developer tools, and product teams from Tasmania. As co-founder of Secret Lab and current Head of Product, Research, and Analytics at Yarn Spinner Pty. Ltd., they’ve steered product and UXR for award-winning games and a narrative toolchain (Yarn Spinner) now powering tens of thousands of games and hundreds of millions of players. Their background spans senior engineering (iOS/Unity), product management, and academic research (PhD in Computer Science/HCI), allowing them to bridge rigorous research, hands-on coding, and strategic product decisions. A prolific technical author (30+ books for O’Reilly and Wiley) and educator, Paris mixes clear communication with practical tooling and open-source stewardship. Outside product work they lead community STEM initiatives in Tasmania, host a space news segment, and are slowly working through a Law degree while learning Chinese—evidence of a restless curiosity that informs pragmatic, long-term thinking.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Management, Informatics, PhD, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Management, Informatics at University of TasmaniaThe Hutchins SchoolDoctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at Macquarie University
English, Indonesian, Greek
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Github Skills (30)
framework710
spinner10
dialogue-systems10
skill10
oms10
game-development10
conversations10
tabletop10
unity3d10
godot9
cocoa7
twine7
swiftui7
swift6
visual-studio-code-extension6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
parisba/OSCON2019-UnityML
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
AIwithSwift/TFWorld2019-SwiftIn3Hours
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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