Paul Williams is a Systems Engineer for the AI & Data platform at EIT. In his role, he designs, deploys, and manages the Cloud infrastructure that provides the base for EIT Programs to build on top of. Paul is creating the EIT Cloud infrastructure from the ground up – focussing on ensuring the Program teams are unburdened by technology decisions and have access to world-class resources for their research and development efforts.
Previously, Paul was the Lead Platform Engineer at Vorboss, a Central London-based Internet Service Provider, responsible for the Cloud infrastructure that internal teams built software solutions on. Paul was also a Technical Lead and Senior Technical Solutions Consultant at Google, responsible for delivering technical implementations to large, multi-national Google Cloud customers. In this role, he also authored and served as a technical reviewer for several of the Google Cloud Certification Exams, and built internal data methodologies for handling feedback across Google Cloud products.
Paul served on the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG) from 2020 until 2022, and the BCS Influence Board between 2022 and 2024.
Paul is a graduate of Birkbeck, University of London, holding a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Computing Technologies. Paul holds two Fellowships. He has been a Fellow of the BCS - British Computer Society – since 2020, and a Fellow of the RSA - Royal Society of Arts - since 2022. Throughout his career, he has held multiple certifications across multiple Public Cloud providers.
Outside of work, Paul sings Baritone with the London Gay Mens Chorus, performing across London and Europe. He is also the Associate Lighting Designer for the group.
He enjoys raising money for charities through Speedrunning, a video gaming style where players work to complete games as fast as possible. He serves as Head of Scheduling for the United Kingdom Speedrunner Gathering, and Head of Safety / Senior Fundraiser for the European Speedrunning Association.
Paul is a neurodiversity advocate, openly speaking about his ADHD diagnosis, and has a passion for finding individual strategies to manage and productively work with the condition.