After graduating from Columbia University, Paul worked at a technology consultancy in New York where he developed enterprise systems for a number of companies in the financial services, communication, and pharmaceutical industries. Fashionably late to the party, Paul then moved to San Francisco in 2002 and found work as a software architect for a couple startup companies before joining Red Hat in 2008. Paul is a contributor to the mod_cluster, Infinispan, and JGroups projects and founder of the HA-JDBC project.