Paul Fairless
Director Of Platform
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Fairless is a seasoned technology leader and platform architect with over 20 years of experience building cloud-native systems and scaling engineering organisations. Currently Director of Platform at Civica and former VP of Technology at IMG ARENA, he has grown engineering teams from zero to 200+ engineers while delivering a Kubernetes-based estate, SRE/SLO practices, and FinOps savings of roughly $1M. He combines hands-on CTO experience—designing serverless pipelines, machine learning sizing systems, and microservice migrations—with strategic vendor, security (ISO27001/SOC2) and QA programs. Known for fostering empowered, diverse teams, he excels at turning high-latency challenges into reliable low-latency streaming and data platforms for demanding real-time customers. An early web developer by training, he blends pragmatic engineering with product insight and a track record of modernising legacy systems into scalable, observable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Newcastle University
Github Skills (31)
javascript-client9
grails9
object-mapping9
api9
neo4j9
telemetry9
groovy8
mongodb8
health8
distributed-tracing8
monitoring8
javascript7
otel7
opentelemetry6
hibernate6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Endource/mongobq
Dec 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 years 10 months
command-line-toolbigquerymongodb
paulfairless/dash
Nov 2010 - Jan 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 3 years 2 months
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