I’m Paul Gradie — a scientist-trained staff software engineer, platform leader, founder, and AI-fluent product builder. I help teams move from ambiguity to production systems that are testable, observable, maintainable, and useful.
Designing resilient platform systems, migration discipline, and delivery-ready engineering for complex teams.
Turning ambiguity into useful software through clear plans, incremental delivery, and operational realism.
Using AI fluency as a capability layer to make engineering, review, and product work more productive.
Building practical products and productized experiments that sharpen my judgment and engineering craft.
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