Paul Napier
Father | Founder | Geek
Sydney, Australia
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A technology executive known for unifying complex digital ecosystems, shaping long-term platform
strategy, and leading engineering organisations through periods of structural and technical transformation.
Brings deep experience across consumer platforms, identity, subscription, analytics, engagement, and
cross-device architectures, with a reputation for delivering clarity, reducing complexity, and enabling
scalable foundations for growth.
Leads with a balanced combination of technical depth and organisational design expertise, creating
operating models, governance frameworks, and engineering standards that improve predictability and
team cohesion. Skilled at guiding multi-disciplinary teams of 50–100+ across engineering, product, data,
design, and vendor groups toward shared outcomes and consistent delivery.
Communicates with precision and executive presence, simplifying highly technical programs into
strategic narratives that support senior decision-making. Combines platform engineering expertise,
pragmatic leadership, and a forward-looking perspective on AI and automation to accelerate delivery,
uplift capability, and strengthen long-term organisational resilience.
Area of Expertise
Topics
Vibe Engineering: Yes, There's a Difference
For decades, organisations have been designed the same way:
Strategy → Structure → Roles → People → Process → Technology.
Technology existed to support how we worked.
But modern tools, techniques and technologies, from AI agents to automation, don't just improve execution. They redefine what's possible.
What if we started there instead?
Strategy → Technology → Process → Roles → Structure → People.
Drawing on real-world experience scaling engineering organisations and introducing agentic workflows, this talk explores how systems thinking can help leaders redesign software delivery for the modern era. We'll examine where automation creates leverage, where human expertise matters most, and share a practical blueprint for improving outcomes without compromising quality, security or governance.
The future isn't about replacing people with AI. It's about redesigning organisations around the capabilities we now have, freeing humans to focus on judgement, creativity and leadership.
Server Side React Native
React Native gives us one codebase across iOS, Android and web. But we're still shipping updates like it's 2015.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to build a Server-Side React Native application that can evolve without constant redeployments. We'll explore how to represent interfaces as data, dynamically render experiences, and introduce experimentation and personalisation into your apps without waiting for App Store approval or even an expo update.
You'll leave with a working understanding of the architecture, the trade-offs involved, and practical techniques you can apply to your own products immediately.
Learn how to:
• Design a server-driven UI architecture for React Native
• Dynamically render interfaces from configuration
• Introduce experimentation and personalisation into your apps
• Decide what belongs on the server and what should remain native
Bring your laptop. We'll build together.
Your Documentation Is Already Wrong
Software begins life aligned. Requirements match reality, documentation reflects behaviour, and user guides explain how things work.
Then the code changes.
The gap between what people think the system does and what it actually does grows over time. Requirements become assumptions. Documentation becomes archaeology. Support becomes the unofficial source of truth.
In this session, we explore how to close that gap by treating the codebase as the source of truth. The your system can continuously regenerate technical documentation, rewrite user guides, update an integrated help chatbot, capture the questions users ask, and feed those insights back into the product lifecycle as potential requirements.
This is more than self-documenting code. It is software that explains itself, learns from itself, and helps shape what gets built next.
The future isn't just self-healing and self-securing software.
It's self-building software.
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