Paul is the co-founder and CEO of InfluxDB, an open source time series database company that came out of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 batch. He is the author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails and the editor for Addison Wesley's Data and Analytics book and video series. Paul is also the founder and organizer of the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which has over 6,000 members. He holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.