Summary
Paul Rooks is a seasoned Software Cloud Architect with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering mission-critical financial switching, ATM/POS, and SCADA systems, and eight years focused on cloud-native transformations. He has led cross-functional and remote teams to migrate monoliths to microservices, modernize ingress with REST and OIDC, and build fintech gateways serving networks of hundreds of institutions and thousands of devices. As founder of Rooks Software Solutions and a repeat architect for enterprises, he blends deep protocol-level expertise (TCP/IP, Modem hubs, RTU comms) with pragmatic product delivery using agile practices. Known for mentoring teams and shipping resilient, secure systems, he also brings an operator’s eye for monitoring, state management and alerting across distributed device networks. Based in Keswick, Ontario, he pairs consultancy breadth with implementation depth and a wry engineering motto—“If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0.”
8 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Control data institute
English