Paul leads engineering at ClassPass, the leading membership to the world’s largest fitness network. Paul is a serial founder and came to ClassPass through the acquisition of fitmob, which he co-founded. Previously he was a co-founder at Ness Computing (acquired by OpenTable) where he led the initial technology development and grew the engineering team to one of the strongest in the valley. Before Ness, he was an early software engineer at Palantir where he designed and implemented the first version of the Palantir geospatial search engine. Paul left academia as a PhD candidate at Stanford where he coauthored numerous papers including the best paper winner at OSDI 2004.