Paul Bowler
Founder & Managing Director at International Wine & Spirit Competition
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Bowler is a founder and managing director with 14 years of technology and delivery leadership experience who pivoted from senior Java/architecture and agile coaching roles to build Winchester Distillery from a shoestring budget into a globally awarded, profitable business within six months. He combines rigorous Lean and Agile practices with technical fluency—his early career as a Java developer and technical architect underpins a systematic, data-driven approach to product development and operational scaling. As an industry judge and accredited wine and spirits diploma holder, he blends commercial entrepreneurship with deep domain knowledge in spirits and wine. Paul’s background in coaching delivery teams and leading technical projects means he brings both people-focused leadership and technical pragmatism to growing businesses and product innovation. An entrepreneur who launches fast, iterates hard, and wins awards, he’s comfortable translating complex technical and regulatory constraints into market-ready, repeatable processes.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Knowledge Management, MBA, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Knowledge Management at The Open UniversitySymphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra at University of SussexLevel 4 Diploma, Wine, Level 4 Diploma, Wine at Wine & Spirit Education TrustBSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Brighton
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (6)
twitter-api6
twitter5
api4
python3
async3
asyncio2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
paulbowler/chesil
May 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 5 months
paulbowler/bedhampton
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
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