Summary
Ryan Roberts is a seasoned software engineer and startup CTO with 15 years of experience building end-to-end systems spanning embedded firmware, cloud services, semantic web APIs, and data provenance platforms. As CTO and co-founder of Paravela he focuses on data integrity and open-source provenance (Chronicle), while also holding principal engineering and director roles across IoT, digital transformation, and safety-critical domains. He has a strong history of driving technical architecture and team development at organisations like NICE, Presciense and BTP, introducing CI/CD, F#, NOSQL, and semantic APIs to production teams. Comfortable from low-level C/C++ and assembly through Rust firmware to modern web stacks and cloud infrastructure, he combines hands-on coding with strategic product thinking. Based in Poole, UK, he simultaneously runs consultancy and director vehicles, reflecting both entrepreneurial appetite and a pragmatic approach to delivering high-impact technical outcomes. An underappreciated strength is his long-running pattern of translating research-grade semantic and provenance ideas into practical, auditable systems used in regulated environments.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer