About Me

Here are the ways I am available to help!

I’m an entrepreneur and engineering leader. I use technology as a tool to try make the world a better place and occassionally start companies along the way.

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Sometimes I help companies jumpstart change. Recently I was at Microsoft as the first Entrepreneur in Residence in the Office of the CTO. This meant trying to start new ideas inside of Microsoft that were not on any existing roadmap and helping others do the same. This was an experiment wherein I got to work with some really great people and I hope that I can point to some of the incubations publicly soon.

Previously I was VP of Engineering at Nines where we developed triage algorithms for radiology to help give radiologists super powers and we rebuilt much of the traditional radiology technology stack from scratch, producing a radiology practice 58% more efficient than the national average. Prior to Nines I led engineering at ClassPass where I helped scale the team and technology after they acquired my startup fitmob.

Before fitmob I started Ness Computing which provided great personalized restaurant recommendations. Sadly we did not pay enough attention to distribution and sold to OpenTable while not realizing our full potential. Before Ness I was at Palantir doing geospatial search, did a bit of consulting, dropped out of a PhD program, and interned at Apple working on the first few versions of Mac OS X Server.

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Paul is an entreprenuerial engineering leader, and was the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Microsoft where he helps launch net new ideas both directly and through coaching others. He has lead engineering at various startups including ClassPass. He has co-founded two conmpanies fitmob (acquired by ClassPass) and Ness Computing (acquired by OpenTable). Before Ness, he was an early software engineer at Palantir where he designed and implemented the first version of the Palantir geospatial search engine. Paul left academia as a PhD candidate at Stanford where he coauthored numerous papers including the best paper winner at OSDI 2004.

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