Paul Lam

Clojure Developer.
Enterprise Startups.
Being Useful.

Paul leads engineering at Motiva A.I. He is an entrepreneur and software engineer with 20 years of experience designing and building production software. Since 2008, Paul has led engineering teams to address business operation challenges across industries using data-driven solutions–-from chicken farming in Mozambique to public relations in Boston to e-commerce in London. Paul joined Motiva from the Data Guild and has overseen building both the engineering team and machine learning product from pre-revenue to multi-million dollar ARR.


Paul is highly food-motivated - a great sampler of global food traditions and lover of new flavours. Since moving to Japan in 2019, he has also developed an acute appreciation of ryokan (旅館) with his young family.