Summary
Paul Ryder is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with nearly 30 years in IT, specializing in technical architecture, search and match systems, and software engineering. He has led in-house and outsourced teams across startups and enterprises, driving R&D and product-grade search algorithms used by major public sector clients like the NHS and DWP. A co-founder of Reshufl and inventor of widely adopted recruitment matching technologies (including a joint patent application for DoD name-matching), he blends deep technical expertise in Java/.NET, Elasticsearch/SOLR, AWS and databases with strong board- and customer-facing communication. Paul has a track record of turning search R&D into commercial value—raising company worth and producing industry-leading CV parsing and reverse-matching systems. Chartered as a CEng and an MBCS member, he brings both academic rigour and pragmatic delivery experience. Currently traveling between engagements, he remains available for consultancy on complex search, AI and large-scale data problems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Manchester
St Bedes College, Manchester
French