Paul Dixon
Chief Technology Officer at LibLynx LLC
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Dixon is a veteran technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with over 25 years of experience delivering educational content from CD-ROM and Laserdisc eras to modern internet video and audio streaming. He specializes in secure, scalable and cost-effective web applications, identity and access management, large-scale search, and media streaming, having built cloud-first IAM offerings for publishers and libraries at LibLynx. Paul combines hands-on engineering with product-driven strategy, previously guiding platform development and digital asset delivery at Alexander Street Press and earlier founding a company that launched one of the first classical music streaming services. Known for pragmatic solutions that balance user simplicity with strong security, he favors usage-based, outcome-focused commercial models and simple integrations. A first-class computing graduate from the University of Manchester, he has repeatedly turned niche technical challenges—such as live-linking trackside timing equipment for real-time results—into competitive product features. Based in Stevenage, Paul brings deep domain expertise in academic content delivery and a history of innovation across media and education technology.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computation, 1st Class, BSc (Hons), Computation, 1st Class at The University of Manchester
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lordelph/icofileloader
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
A high quality PHP package for reading and converting any .ico icon file, particularly website favicons
Contributions:1 release, 93 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 7 months
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lordelph/pastebin
Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
The original pastebin source, available under an AGPL licence
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
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