About Fife-V

Paul helps engineering teams make AI part of everyday work, safely. He introduced Claude Code to the engineering team at a connected-TV analytics company and built their shared setup: project conventions, skills, review agents and guard hooks that keep secrets, database migrations and production systems protected. He coaches by pairing on the team’s real backlog, not slide decks.

Behind that are more than 25 years in software, from architecture through hands-on delivery. He architected the same company’s AWS platform, which matches content from more than 200 capture devices against over 6 million titles, and helped a UK public Wi-Fi provider move its core platform into a private cloud. He sees AI as a force multiplier for experienced engineers, not a substitute for their judgement.

Ryan helps engineering teams move from asking AI the odd question to having it plan, write and review their work, with people kept in the review loop. At a connected-TV analytics company he coached the team through each step of that shift, and used Claude Code to fix a video encoding fault that had persisted for two to three years, working only on an isolated test device.

He also built and led that company’s R&D and lab operations from scratch, including a device fleet across two data centres, automated installs and updates, and denser racks that saved about £50,000 a year. Earlier, he worked in a team of up to ten on a UK public Wi-Fi provider’s live estate, rolling out encryption at rest and getting releases to a daily cadence.