Paul Read
Retired With Some Charity Work at Home
Fareham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Read is a retired IBM product introduction manager with over three decades of hands-on experience in data management, cognitive computing, and developer engagement, now volunteering and building robotics projects from his base in Fareham. At IBM he led beta programs for DB2 and Watson, ran hackathons and residencies, and authored educational materials and Redbooks that bridged complex platform capabilities to developer communities. Today he combines charity driving with running robotics, AI and machine learning sessions for schools, building and programming bots, drones and droids to inspire the next generation. Comfortable both in legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud/AI toolchains, he brings practical expertise in technical consultancy, training and program management. An avid badminton player and lifelong tinkerer, he still codes and prototypes hardware—an educator who turns professional-grade platforms into hands-on learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Management Information Systems, General, Informatics, Management Information Systems, General at University of Plymouth
Italian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
node-red10
watson9
cloud-services9
nodejs8
ibm-watson8
nodes8
ibm-cloud7
twitter6
tradeoff2
javascript1
analytics1
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/node-red-bluemix-starter
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 7 months
bluemixnodejscustomisednode-red
watson-developer-cloud/node-red-labs
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 21 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cloud-servicesnode-redwatson-developer-cloudcloud-developernodejs
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