Summary
Paul Osborne is a Senior Product Developer based in Leeds with 12 years of experience delivering customer-facing web and mobile products across media, defence, rail, and telecoms. He combines hands-on full-stack development with technical leadership, having led migrations to React, React Native and TypeScript for major clients like Sky and Network Rail. At BAE Systems he helped build global desktop and web tools used by Lloyd’s Register surveyors and SOC analysts, showing a strong ability to design reliable, mission-critical applications. Comfortable shipping cross-team projects, he’s transitioned legacy systems into modern JavaScript stacks and coached teams through those changes. Describing himself succinctly on GitHub as a “Functioneer,” he brings a pragmatic, product-focused engineering mindset that balances delivery speed with long-term maintainability. Outside core development he has a track record of building bespoke commercial sites and internal platforms, reflecting a breadth from startup-style projects to large enterprise systems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer