Summary
Paul Cutting is a pragmatic engineering leader with over 25 years in technology and a decade of formal leadership experience, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Adaptavist and Upscale. He combines deep hands-on roots—from early low-level development to modern DevOps and security—with proven track records in Agile transformation, developer productivity, and global operations. Paul has led distributed teams across the UK, Europe, the US and Asia, driving reliability, compliance, and infrastructure automation while balancing product delivery and partner support. A long-time community organiser in Norwich (SyncNorwich / Sync the City), he brings a community-first mindset to hiring, coaching and cross-team collaboration. Notably, he has moved between technical, coaching and security director roles, showing rare versatility in both tactical engineering and strategic operational leadership.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Hethersett High School
Higher National Diploma Computing, Higher National Diploma Computing at Norwich City College