Technical Lead

Paul Schulz

Hands-on technical leadership from architecture through delivery and operation.

Technical Lead profile

Hands-on technical leader, architect and builder with experience shaping cloud-native AI enabled SaaS and enterprise platforms, distributed systems and global engineering environments. My work spans AWS, GCP and Azure, APIs, GenAI and Agentic services, serverless and container platforms, relational, vector, graph and NoSQL databases, mobile and web products, security and compliance. I translate business and product needs into pragmatic architecture, modernisation and delivery choices, balancing scalability, resilience, security and commercial value. I’m authoring Method.AI, an AI deployment methodology.

Platform & EnterpriseDelivered platform and enterprise architecture for digital transformation across healthcare (including American Red Cross), field service and education (MEGT) - including AI services.
Platforms that scaleDelivered platforms serving millions of users and customers across multiple markets for FIFA, Yahoo!, US & Canadian government agencies and various healthcare providers.
Secure and ResilientDelivered a highly secure and resilient enterprise COVID booking system for US, Canadian and Australian/NZ government agencies.

Role-fit capabilities

Cloud architecture: AWS / GCPDistributed systems & APIsServerless / Kubernetes / DockerPlatform modernisationWeb & mobile platformsData stores: SQL / NoSQL / GraphSecurity & complianceArchitecture governanceBuild / buy / partner decisionsMicro-serviceHighly scalable, distributed architectureEnterprise system integrationsAgentic & RAG architectureNo code/low code platform architectureSaaS/multi-tenancy architecture

Selected impact

Platform strategy at Skedulo

Drove the architecture and multi-region implementation of an enterprise grade, low-code/no-code SaaS platform that enabled transformative enterprise implementations in health and field service management

Enterprise Transformation Programmes

Through my work at Skedulo and MEGT, I have delivered enterprise transformation architectures across a wide range of healthcare, field service management and education and training providers.

Built high-volume mobile and online systems

Delivered Yahoo! mobile services and the official FIFA World Cup mobile service, supporting hundreds of millions of visitors and updates.

Security and regulated environments

Technology leadership across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and RFFR environments.

Professional experience

Nov 2025 - Nov 2026
Australia

Principal Technical Lead/Architect · MEGT Innovation and Digital Enablement

Lead the architecture, hands-on development and daily operation of the AI-enabled enterprise SaaS platform being developed and deployed nationally at MEGT through the Innovation and Digital Enablement team as part of an overall enterprise-wide digital transformation programme. Delivered an orchestrated, AI-driven candidate assessment microservice using Vertex AI and Gemini. AI coding tools used in the SDLC include Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.

Technology: TypeScript, React/React Native, AWS/GCP/Azure, AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, GraphQL, Microsoft Graph APIs, Vertex AI/Gemini, BigQuery, Airflow / Cloud Composer, LangChain/LangGraph and LangSmith, enterprise architecture, micro-services, CI/CD, RAG and vector databases, Temporal.io. Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR, RFFR and SOC 2.

Mar 2025 - Nov 2026
United Kingdom

Principal Engineer/Architect · Dotzle (UK)

Led proof of concept work, then the architecture, detailed design and build of a TypeScript-based, agentic B2C platform that catalogues and values household belongings using AI and ML. Brought the team together to create the beta offering, led all sprints and delivered production code as lead engineer. AI coding tools used in the SDLC include Claude and Kimi.

Technology: TypeScript, React/React Native, AWS, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, LangChain/LangGraph and LangSmith, agentic architecture, microservices, CI/CD, RAG, graph and vector databases, WhatsApp and Messenger bot applications, OpenAPI and MCP implementations.

May 2025 - Oct 2025
Australia · Offshore

Interim CTO / Technical Lead · Motor Platform

Led the development and daily operation of Motor Platform’s PHP/Laravel, TypeScript, React and React Native marketplace and SaaS offerings on AWS. Partnered with the Head of Product to lead the engineering team in Australia and offshore during a six-month interim CTO engagement.

Jan 2020 - May 2024
UK · US · Australia · Vietnam

Executive VP, Technology and Innovation · Skedulo

Owned the platform architecture and led the end-to-end Product and Technology function for a global workforce management SaaS business. Championed the Deskless Productivity Cloud as a platform concept, delivering an enterprise grade, no-code/low-code SaaS platform that delivers highly customisable mobile workforce applications designed to transform business processes at large scale enterprises globally. Platform customers (and enterprise transformation programmes driven through the deployment of the platform) included the likes of Australian healthcare providers, American Red Cross, US and Canadian Health government agencies and a wide range of field service operators in the UK, Australia and the US.

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.

Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
London · Sheffield · Paris · Sydney

Chief Product and Technology Officer · Perkbox

Owned the platform architecture and led a 100-person product and engineering team delivering an AWS-based, multi-region 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, NetSuite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and AWS. Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR.

Sep 2009 - Dec 2014
London · New York

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.

Sep 2009 - Jul 2013
Global

Group CTO · Zattikka

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

Technology: Java, native mobile, C++, AWS, Node.js and TypeScript.

Apr 2002 - Dec 2006
London · Global

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.

Technology: PHP, C++, native mobile and database technologies.

Feb 2001 - Mar 2002
London, UK

Interim CTO · XTempus

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

2000
Sydney, Australia

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.

1997 - 1999
Sydney · Helsinki

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.

1996 - 1999
Sydney, Australia

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.

1993 - 1996
Australia

Senior Consultant · Object Consulting Pty. Ltd.

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

1989 - 1993
London, UK

Contract Software Engineer · Chase Manhattan Bank

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

Technical breadth

Cloud & platform: AWS (including Bedrock), GCP (including Vertex AI), Terraform, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure and cloud-native systems. Languages & application: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Python, Java, Go, PHP, C++, Swift and Kotlin. Data & integration: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, graph and vector databases, REST, GraphQL, RAG and agentic frameworks. Security & compliance: ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR. Engineering practices: Git, CI/CD. AI & data: OpenAI, Anthropic, BigQuery, Airflow / Composer and Medallion Architecture. Services & workflows: Micro-services and Temporal.

Education & additional

B.Inf, Computer Science

Griffith University, Australia · 1987-1989
University Medalist · graduated top of year

Languages

English · Native
Japanese · Beginner

Professional interests

Technology-led market disruption, AI and NLP, high-performance team culture, and commercial value through technical excellence.