Summary
Paul Harter is a technical director and hands-on engineering leader with 12 years of formal tech experience and a multi-decade background in film, broadcast and creative tech. He currently leads engineering at Panaudia while also acting as a founding engineer at Electric and directing R&D and product work at Glowinthedark, focusing on spatial audio and synchronized embedded systems. His career spans startups and research labs—building tools for collaborative media production at BBC R&D, real-time graphics and plugins for broadcast, and robotic precision farming platforms as a former CTO. Paul blends creative practice with systems engineering, shipping both low-latency media tooling and hardware-integrated products for clients including Arup, 00 Architects and broadcast houses. Notably, he moves fluidly between research, product and production: from generative art commissions and museum exhibits to NESTA-funded education projects and distributed manufacturing tooling. Based in London, he brings a practical, interdisciplinary approach that bridges creative industries and applied research.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer