Paul Harter
Technical Director at Electric
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPaul 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
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Github Skills (97)
postgresql10
authentication10
speech10
couchbase-lite10
firebase10
firebase-authentication10
push-notifications10
sql10
firebase-database10
firebase-messaging10
database10
sqlite10
mysql10
elixir10
couchbase-sync-gateway10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
paulharter/fam
Sep 2014 - Dec 2021
Contributions:235 commits, 200 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
electric-sql/cli
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
ElectricSQL command line interface (CLI) tool.
Contributions:6 reviews, 72 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
mysqlcommand-line-interfacesqlcli-toolcli-interface
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