Summary
Paul Harris is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Sydney with 11 years of focused experience building large-scale analytics and data engineering platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka and Docker with a strong track record of bridging business strategy and technical delivery, including platforms that ingest a billion+ rows daily. Paul has led architecture, devops and CI-to-production operations, designed multi-billion-row databases and optimised multi-TB analytic systems while coaching teams through agile organisational change. Known for a pragmatic, human-centered approach, he excels at translating complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and customers. His background spans BI, ETL and MPP systems through to cloud-native distributed R&D, reflecting a rare generalist depth across the full data lifecycle.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng 1st (Hons), Civil Engineering, MEng 1st (Hons), Civil Engineering at Sheffield University