About

I'm an engineer who has been at the forefront of helping companies adopt novel and disruptive technologies for over a decade. I've architected enterprise solutions at Cisco and Google Cloud, working as the primary technical lead on accounts spanning global telcos, media companies, and FTSE 100 enterprises. I've also founded a fintech startup, and led engineering at a seed-stage firmware security company.

If there's a common thread running through all of this experience, it's that automation was at the heart of every project. Whether data centre virtualisation, cloud migration, or binary security scanning, each was fundamentally about removing friction where humans were in the loop, to capture that value. So each time, these disruptive projects had a large human-impact component. When a new software-defined network is introduced, what do the network engineers do? When binary analysis can be driven by an automated platform, what do security researchers do? Every time, the answer was never nothing, there was always plenty more work to do, either higher up the stack, or at the same level, just through a different, and often more useful, interface.

AI to me is the same. It's novel automation infrastructure, just the latest and most powerful iteration. Where it really differentiates is in its generality. Every layer, every vertical, is being disrupted. But the pattern is familiar. Having spent years helping enterprises adopt disruptive technology, I've seen this play out repeatedly and I know how enterprises navigate these transitions. I also know that we, as technologists, visionaries, but ultimately practical implementers, will find our own value in the age of automated intelligence.

I'm building with it directly: agentic systems, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, to understand the messy reality of getting AI to work and scale, safely and securely, in production. This website is where I write about what I'm learning along the way — for my own thinking, to write is to think, and I'm sharing in case it's useful to others navigating these same waters.

A note on the use of AI for this website: I write the content, AI helps with editing and proofreading.

You can reach me at paulmattei@pm.me.