PAUL LAM
We build, not to have,
but to learn.
I spend an absurd amount of time understanding the problem, sometimes until my co-founder gets worried, and then keep the machinery simple.
It all started when I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. I got close: I worked in aerospace robotics, then studied biomedical engineering. One thing led to another -- algorithmic trading, Clojure, data science, and four startups. The problems have ranged from journalism and chicken farming to enterprise marketing.
These days I am curious about how work moves between people and their LLM agents: I hand off to you and yours, you hand back to me and mine. I have lived in Japan since 2018, where I bake sourdough without keeping a starter, and travel with my young family to old country inns, ryokan 旅館.
writing
talks
- debugging under mental stress clojure/north 2020
- smallholder farmers in africa european commission 2017
- better living through clojure mit iap 2015
- customer behaviour analytics strata london 2013
- knowledge discovery on web logs or54 edinburgh 2012
- bootstrapping data science data science london 2012
work
- world resources institute applied a.i. advisor
- motiva a.i. founding head of engineering
- ingrower mobile co-founder
- spokepoint co-founder & cto
- uswitch first data scientist
- quantisan systems principal