Paul Maddox
Director - Cloud & AI Solutions Engineering (Middle East & Africa) at Microsoft
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Maddox is a seasoned cloud and AI solutions leader with 13+ years of experience accelerating developer productivity and modernizing applications across Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Currently Director for Cloud & AI Solutions Engineering at Microsoft covering 109 countries, he blends hands-on expertise in Azure-native platforms (AKS, Container Apps, App Service, API Management) with DevOps tooling (Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, GitHub) and AI to help customers ship faster. Previously he led developer acceleration at AWS EMEA and co-founded JuiceSSH, giving him rare operational depth from mobile tooling to large-scale cloud infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Paul has practical contributions to prominent AWS projects (CDK workshops, SAM CLI, GoFormation, Fargate CLI) focused on secure, automated infrastructure and developer ergonomics. He is comfortable moving between strategy and code—reworking core libraries and CLI tooling to support new runtimes and security controls—an indication of both technical curiosity and product-minded impact. Based in Dubai, he combines regional leadership with a hands-on engineering pedigree that helps bridge enterprise transformation and practical developer adoption.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
St Bedes, Redhill
Github Skills (38)
route5310
amazon-cloudfront10
docker10
data-provider10
aws-cdk10
amazon-ecs10
aws-fargate10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
cloud-infrastructure10
android-sdk10
dockers10
java10
javas10
aws-sam10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Sonelli/juicessh-performancemonitor
Sep 2013 - Apr 2020
A JuiceSSH plugin for monitoring linux servers
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:65 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to an Android application plugin for JuiceSSH. Their work involved modifying the content provider contract, including adding permissions, updating the UI, and improving exception handling within the app. They also refactored code to integrate with a PluginLibrary AAR, and added features such as a "Fork me on Github" and "Rate Plugin" menu. A key focus was on improving the user interface and user experience by automatically connecting and disconnecting when the activity pauses.
linuxlinux-serversmonitoringperformance-tuning
awslabs/goformation
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
GoFormation is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 353 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the core functionality of the GoFormation library, specifically by implementing a new code generator for CloudFormation resource properties. Their work involved defining a `Property` struct to represent AWS CloudFormation resource properties and implementing methods to determine the Go types for these properties. Furthermore, the user implemented a framework for auto-generating JSON Schemas for all the resources within the project.
golangaws-cloudformationgo-libraryaws-samcloudformation-templates
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