Summary
Paul Leo is a mobile-focused founder and contract consultant based in London with over 16 years of experience building App Store products and 11 years of professional experience in consultancy and architecture. He has led mobile architecture and delivery for high-profile clients including Aviva, Deutsche Bank, Chelsea FC, BMW and Burger King, and has launched 30+ apps across iOS and Android. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he combines deep systems and embedded-systems roots (MEng in Systems Engineering) with an MBA (distinction) to bridge product, technical delivery and commercial outcomes. He started his career in C and systems work at DERA and IBM before co-founding product businesses and becoming a recognized expert in mobile app design, platform migration and enterprise mobile programmes. Notably, his consultancy blends startup pragmatism—having raised seed capital and shipped desktop accounting software—with large-enterprise rigour on multi-million-pound projects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Systems Engineering, MEng Systems Engineering at Loughborough University
MBA (with Distinction), MBA (with Distinction) at Durham University