// hey, I'm Paul

Paul Radford

Senior Full-Stack Engineer · AI & LLM Systems

20+ years building robust web systems. These days I work with AI: LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and all the awkward production work between models and the people using them.

developer.js 
async function developer() {
  const skills = ["React", "Vue", "Node.js", "AI/LLM"];
  return skills.map(s => `Ship ${s}`);
}

"Good design happens before the first line of code."

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Stack

TypeScript·React·NextJS·PHP·Laravel·PostgreSQL·Vector DBs·LLM APIs·RAG·Agents·Docker·Kubernetes·Terraform
// about

About Paul.

Paul Radford, Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Paul Radford turns ideas into working software. For more than twenty years he has done the unglamorous, essential work of understanding what people actually need and building it, drawing on a career that spans not just the full web stack but the businesses around it. That instinct for translation, taking a vague ambition and shaping it into something that ships and scales, runs through everything from early custom CRM builds to enterprise platforms handling hundreds of millions in transactions.

More recently his focus has moved to AI. He has led LLM adoption across his current company, building custom Model Context Protocol integrations into its software so that customer-service, product, engineering, and DevOps teams work with less friction. It is the practical, often awkward production work between a model and the people relying on it: LLM integrations and agentic workflows, grounded in two decades of full-stack engineering across PHP, Laravel, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

That AI work sits on a deep technical foundation. As a senior full-stack engineer he has rebuilt underperforming legacy systems into scalable platforms, modernised codebases serving hundreds of thousands of users, and bridged the gap between security, operations, and development teams on the infrastructure that ships a product. Alongside the day job he builds his own tools, including a visual firewall-rule designer and a Bun-first backend framework. Paul is based in Victoria, Australia, and works with teams worldwide.

// experience

Where I've worked.

  1. 2021 — present

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer · a workforce-management SaaS

    Bridging security, operations, and development, and leading LLM and Model Context Protocol adoption across the product.

  2. 2020 — 2021

    Senior Software Developer · a national telco

    Rebuilt CRM and external-API performance, and built the platform that supported a major merger across VoIP, NBN, and mobile services.

  3. 2016 — 2019

    Lead Developer · a digital agency

    Rebuilt underperforming legacy applications into scalable platforms, and led a shared-hosting-to-AWS migration backed by Elasticsearch and Redis.

  4. Before 2016

    A decade-plus of PHP & full-stack work

    Hands-on PHP, LAMP, and front-end development across agencies and small businesses, including custom CRM and web-systems builds.

// current work

Building right now.

RuleForge

Firewall configuration is unforgiving: rules are dense text, ordering bugs are easy to introduce and hard to spot, and one mistake can expose or black-hole a network. RuleForge turns that text into a visual canvas — drag out the network topology, compose rules against it, and simulate how a packet traverses the rule set before anything ships. Complex policies become legible at a glance, mistakes surface in the simulator instead of in production, and the gap between intent and configuration narrows. Currently in private beta.

React TypeScript Canvas
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Bunary

Bun makes JavaScript backends far faster to start and run, but the ecosystem still lacks the batteries-included structure that makes a framework like Laravel productive for real applications. Bunary brings that structure to Bun — a cohesive, convention-driven backend framework built around Bun's strengths, optimised for developer velocity and minimal cold starts rather than retrofitting a Node-era framework. The result is an open-source foundation for building scalable, high-performance APIs with the ergonomics developers expect and the speed Bun provides. Built in the open.

Bun TypeScript OSS
Open Source View Repo

template.tips

Practical front-end knowledge — the small CSS and HTML techniques that actually ship features — is scattered across blog posts, threads, and gists, and goes stale quickly. template.tips collects them into one maintained library: a React front end backed by a headless Payload CMS, curated and updated weekly so the snippets stay current and copy-paste ready. The result is a growing, practical reference for developers who want a working technique rather than a long article.

React TypeScript Payload CMS
In Development Explore

aitool.tips

AI tooling moves fast, and the genuinely useful prompts, tips, and workflows are buried in noise that's outdated within weeks. aitool.tips curates them into a maintained library — the same React and headless Payload CMS stack as template.tips — focused on practical, current techniques for developers working with AI tools day to day. The result is a growing reference of AI tips and prompts that stays current, helping developers get more from the tools without wading through hype. Updated weekly.

React TypeScript Payload CMS
In Development Explore