Paul Burt

Biography

Paul is Unicorn Jobs’ Web Developer. He developed, deployed and assisted in the design of unicornjobs.com.

After graduating with a BA in Dutch from University College London, Paul fell into a career in IT by accident when he was picked up to work on a multi-lingual support team for a major software company.

Figuring out that computing was more up his street than languages, he went on to land a system administration job with a global 3D graphics company which gave him the chance to travel the world and live and work everywhere from Brussels to Sydney.

After 15 years of global vagrancy and a career spanning three continents, Paul is currently in London.

He joined Unicorn Jobs in September 2007 as part of our launch team, and built unicornjobs.com from the ground up using only open source software components, something he has always been incredibly passionate about. Our servers run Ubuntu Linux and the clever stuff going on in the background is handled by a nifty open source Python web development framework called Django.

When he’s not writing code, Paul can usually be found bashing out laps in the swimming pool.