Paul Schulz

Founding Partner (CTO) · Ask the CTO (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane)

Provide fractional, interim, contract and permanent CTO/CTPO services to early-stage and scaling ventures and innovation teams in Australia and the UK. Work spans technical strategy, digital transformation, platform and enterprise architecture, hands-on AI (SDLC and end-user services), data & platform implementation, product roadmaps, delivery, team formation, vendor management and engineering culture.

Technology: TypeScript, React/React Native, AWS/GCP, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, GraphQL, Vertex AI, Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, BigQuery, Airflow / Cloud Composer, LangChain/LangGraph, enterprise architecture, micro-services, CI/CD, RAG and graph databases, Temporal.io. Compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, RFFR and SOC 2.

Executive VP, Technology and Innovation · Skedulo

Led the end-to-end Product and Technology function for a global workforce management SaaS business. Built a high-performance organisation across four countries with product, UX, customer support, cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform, application and solutions engineering capabilities. Championed the Deskless Productivity Cloud and worked across the business to improve customer outcomes and delivery.

Technology: Kotlin, Node.js, TypeScript, React, React Native, Kubernetes, AWS, serverless, PostgreSQL, Python, GraphQL, Salesforce, ML and generative AI. Compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001.

Chief Product and Technology Officer · Perkbox

Led a 100-person product and engineering team delivering an AWS-based SaaS platform across the UK, Ireland, France and Australia, serving thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of employees. Combined hands-on technical work with product, people, operational and board-level responsibilities.

Technology: Node.js, React, React Native, Go, TypeScript, Salesforce, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and AWS. Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR.

Founder and CTO · Open Video Ads

Created an open-source initiative for IAB VAST/VPAID-compliant video player technology, then built a commercial business serving millions of video ads daily. Sold the business and technology to JW Player in 2014.

Group CTO · Zattikka

Led technology across five game studios in a social and casual gaming group, managing teams and platforms spanning web and mobile.

Skills: Acquisition/merge and integration activities, group level multi-org team formation and management, cross group performance reporting, technology standards development and rollout.

Head of Mobile Technology · Yahoo!

Built Yahoo!’s global mobile engineering unit from London and led an organisation of 350+ engineers across the UK, Europe, the US, South America, China, Australia and Southeast Asia. Delivered mobile products including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Finance, the first Yahoo! Mobile Apps and the FIFA World Cup mobile service. Oversaw technology aspects of acquisitions and strategic integrations.

Skills: The delivery of cost efficient platform and service architecture at very large load levels, global massively distributed (32 countries) multi-disciplinary engineering team and programme/delivery management, agile practices, vendor and partner management (including FIFA, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Nokia etc), acquisition integration processes and management, 3rd party API integrations at scale, risk management, stakeholder engagement and management, strong communication and leadership, high performance delivery culture development, compliance management

Interim CTO · XTempus

Led technology and product strategy for an early-stage mobile venture through its 2002 exit.

CTO · Talking Point Australia

Led early R&D into natural language processing and agent technology deployed on a JavaCard SIM. The innovation received the Golden Palm award at Mobile World Congress.

Research and Development Manager · Nokia

Managed Nokia’s Australian mobile R&D centre following the acquisition of my consulting company, supporting the integration of the team into Nokia. Delivered multiple complex software projects across the hardware and software lifecycle for mobile devices and mobile network products.

Technology: C++, embedded JVM, JavaScript and Java.

Co-Founder and CTO · The Indigo Corporation

Built an object-oriented technology consultancy serving telecommunications and finance clients, including HP R&D, Nokia R&D, Macquarie Bank and FAI. Sold the business to Nokia in 1999 to support its Australian R&D presence.

Senior Consultant · Object Consulting Pty. Ltd.

Delivered object technology and distributed computing consulting, and co-authored Mentor, a full-lifecycle object-oriented methodology.

Contract Software Engineer · Chase Manhattan Bank

Lead developer for dealing-floor position management software, including development, deployment and operational maintenance.