Paul and I had many discussions that directly impacted my PM decisions. I could always count on him to make time to listen, think, and constructively challenge new feature work I ran by him. He also hosted some great internal sessions for our team to experiment which led to fantastic ideas that customers were excited about. He is one of the most supportive colleagues I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.

We worked together in Customer Engineering, a revenue-critical function he set up at Neotys before acquisition and one that I’ve seen grow in value since 2021. His support of other employees and customers provided great opportunities for further account expansion and industry recognition.

In our corporate development overlap, Paul led the effort to provide highly credible pre-acquisition technical due diligence. I was always impressed with his ability to summarize actionable intel from deep-dives, sometimes even consolidating a huge amount of work into easy to understand decisions. He also grew trust between groups which is rare and necessary for long-term success.

Paul was extremely helpful with positioning around DevOps and on webinars as a subject matter expertise. We worked closely on multiple projects and content pieces where his attention to detail and customer focus made them all the more powerful resources for our sales and marketing teams. Many of his visual contributions also made it into our core messaging and sales decks as well.

Paul worked as a Developer Evangelist in my Product Marketing team at Perfecto. He is passionate and hard working. His combination of technical expertise, business acumen, and creative thinking makes him a strong asset to any team.

In 2016, we launched several developer-focused platform capabilities. Paul passionately drove key aspects of our sales enablement and go-to-market strategy, including internal training sessions, supporting materials aligned to our core messaging and sales methodologies, and public relations engagements. I would frequently rely on his perspective when it came to communicating complex ideas through easy to understand visuals. His is free hand line art skills were a definite bonus.

He also played an important role in crafting our story for enterprises moving towards scaled Agile and DevOps cultures, many of his ideas making into customer-facing materials and presentations. Paul’s own presentations at conferences elevated our brand through carefully crafted combination of thought leadership, process-related insights and technical demonstrations. He’s committed to delivering value to his audience.

His research often resulted in output that easily supported our content marketing strategy, but also helped to direct future product positioning.

He is coachable, adaptable and has an insatiable appetite for learning.

Paul supported my marketing objectives at Perfecto, helping to construct and fulfill our content strategy towards developers. He wrote for our blog, delivered research reports and drove webinars that supported our lead gen goals, drove influencer programs, and generally helped out wherever we needed subject matter expertise.

Paul often pushed our definition of done to a new level, using his technical skills in process automation to improve our internal communications. He helped to integrate systems like Slack into our workflows to notify various team members of relevant real-time information related to event sponsorship and speaking opportunities.

Paul also managed projects that required alignment across multiple stakeholders, not an easy thing to do. He learns quickly and adapts to the culture of a team to get things done.

When Paul pitched Incubation Engineering to me in 2021, it was an easy decision to bring him into my Product organization. He quickly became an invaluable resource – not only for Quality Engineering and DevOps discussions and advanced demos, but also for his ability to collaborate with a small team to transform innovative ideas into prototypes. Some of these prototypes led to patent filings, while others evolved into approved new product initiatives.

As I transitioned to lead the Office of Strategy, Paul was once again eager to contribute, this time tackling complex challenges in strategic positioning, competitive differentiation, and technical due diligence for potential acquisitions. He even played a key role in organizing internal hackathons, all while managing the work funnel for his incubation team. Paul was consistently prepared for our one-on-one meetings, bringing thoughtful insights and a clear sense of priorities for the week. His structured thinking and meticulous note-taking allowed us to cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time, which was invaluable given our limited resources.

I frequently heard from his colleagues how much they benefited from his cross-functional discussions and his “Mug club” sessions, where people could pitch new ideas and receive feedback on early features. Paul’s willingness to facilitate open collaboration helped foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team.

Beyond his role in product and strategy, Paul has been highly active in the DevOps community. He has organized DevOps Days events, spoken at numerous industry conferences, authored insightful articles, and built tools to address critical challenges in the space.

Paul consistently goes above and beyond in everything he does. His strong emotional intelligence allows him to connect with and motivate teams, particularly those that are newly formed. He has a unique ability to catalyze progress and bring out the best in everyone he works with. I have no doubt that Paul will continue to make significant contributions in any role he takes on.

I hired Paul as a Sales Engineer in my growing U.S. team and immediately saw the positive impact, not only in revenue but in sales team development and process improvement. Paul brings an impressive technical and personal level of commitment to teams he’s on as well as other groups such as marketing, product, and executive leadership. He was instrumental in elevating our offering in DevOps and continuous delivery teams, writing many early code examples and modernizing our training resources. He also brought our product leaders on-site with some of our biggest customers who were primed to share their internal roadmaps and collaborate on the future of our product because of the trust he helped to develop with them. He even made internal business cases for technology integrations in high demand so that we could make well-timed investment decisions, ultimately leading to the creation of our ‘customer engineering’ role which is still critical to sales and customer success to this day. It was great to work with him for the years we did!

Paul was instrumental in maturing our evangelism in the performance and dev ops community. He is a well respected technical mind in that arena. His commitment to improving sales execution as a sales engineer was key to our ability to win more deals. He pushed me as a leader to work with him to develop more advanced sales methodologies. Paul is never satisfied with the status quo.

Paul is the most talented and effective technologist and change agent I have ever known. Paul is innately curious with a voracious appetite for learning that is seemingly boundless. But Paul’s true genius is his passion for teaching. Whether speaking at conferences, leading meet-ups, advising clients or just casual conversation with colleagues, Paul creates interactive learning environments where he thoughtfully and energetically enables fertile learning environments. As the Head of Marketing, I routinely relied upon Paul for product marketing insights and to work collaboratively in a wide variety of community and field marketing events. In addition to being an amazing technologist and teacher, Paul is also one of the finest humans I know. People naturally want to follow Paul because of his brilliance, but also because his sincerity and empathy is so genuine. I would jump at the opportunity to work with Paul again in a heartbeat!

Paul supported my marketing objectives at Perfecto, helping to construct and fulfill our content strategy towards developers. He wrote for our blog, delivered research reports and drove webinars that supported our lead gen goals, drove influencer programs, and generally helped out wherever we needed subject matter expertise.

Paul often pushed our definition of done to a new level, using his technical skills in process automation to improve our internal communications. He helped to integrate systems like Slack into our workflows to notify various team members of relevant real-time information related to event sponsorship and speaking opportunities.

Paul also managed projects that required alignment across multiple stakeholders, not an easy thing to do. He learns quickly and adapts to the culture of a team to get things done.