Summary
Paul Mowat is a Principal DevOps Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and migrating large-scale SaaS and enterprise systems, currently leading DevOps architecture at OneAdvanced. He specialises in CI/CD, cloud migration and standardisation across AWS, Azure and Harness, and has led high-impact projects including a cost-saving migration away from JFrog that saved $200k/year. Comfortable from design through IaC and operations, he pairs deep platform knowledge (Node.js, Docker, serverless AWS) with a strong emphasis on security, cost optimisation and developer enablement. Paul has a track record of mentoring distributed teams, driving company-wide architectural direction that affects hundreds of developers and dozens of applications. He also blends legacy expertise (Progress OpenEdge, SQL Server) with modern cloud-first practices, making him adept at migrating and modernising complex estates. Outside work he pursues continual learning in emerging technologies and enjoys photography and family time.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computing for Internet and Multimedia, Computing, 2:1, Computing for Internet and Multimedia, Computing, 2:1 at The Robert Gordon University
HND Computing, A, HND Computing, A at Banff & Buchan College