I am Paul Gradie, a software engineer, founder, and inventor with a PhD background. I help teams move from research to production by building foundational AI models, applied AI systems, and resilient software that keeps delivering under real-world pressure.
We now have machines that do not merely execute instructions. They participate in reasoning. Not perfectly, not independently, not in some mystical human-equivalent sense — but enough that the mode of interaction has fundamentally changed.
Remote work made hiring global, but compensation still hits a border. A Melbourne-versus-US comparison shows how same-team pay can diverge sharply even after accounting for super and employer payroll costs.
An intentful, workplace-ready substitute for the stigmatizing "vibe coding" paradigm
When code output is cheap, trust becomes the constraint. Guild Driven Development makes review the control surface that keeps systems coherent.
2024 - Present
Tilt Finance
2020 - 2024
Octopus Deploy
2017 - 2020
Zendesk
2014 - 2017
University of Melbourne
2010 - 2013
University of Connecticut
2007 - 2010
University of Connecticut