Paul Thornton
Chief Technology Officer at Urban Sharing
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Thornton is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Oslo with 11 years in senior roles and over two decades building networked systems and enterprise software. He co-founded multiple ventures, including Easy-IP (enterprise network management) and ShareBike (public bike management hardware and software), demonstrating rare experience bridging software, hardware and operational design. At Urban Sharing he moved from systems architect to CTO, guiding platform architecture and scaling efforts for city-scale services informed by earlier work on global bike-share backends. Technically grounded in Delphi, ASP.NET and Firebird, Paul pairs hands-on engineering with strategic product instincts and a history of shipping resilient networked services. Beyond software he’s run retail and hospitality businesses, reflecting strong operational leadership and a practical, customer-focused approach to technology.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons) Software Engineering, Software Engineering, BSc (hons) Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Lancashire
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
6,033reputation
383kreached
63answers
70questions
delphi
top-5%
Github Skills (64)
schema-validation10
delphi10
validations9
type-safety9
validation9
type-inference9
schema9
chrome9
validate9
sanitization9
typesafe8
typescript8
zod7
bash7
linux7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grijjy/DelphiGoogleAPI
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
norgepaul/DelphiKafkaClient
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Apache Kafka Client for Delphi
Contributions:20 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
apache-kafkadelphiapachekafkakafka-client
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