Paul Callaghan
Web Developer
Paul is a Rails developer, with specialities in database performance and interesting algorithms. Before joining Transcendit in 2010, he spent 10 years as a university lecturer, opting to try a different path after teaching an MSc course on Rails and realising it really was more fun outside of academia. Paul also has a Ph.D. in “something artificial intelligence-y”, and dates his interests back to programmable calculators at the start of the 1980s(!)
Paul's current vice is playing Mahjong, especially the Japanese version of it, citing how it is a fast-paced mix of poker and rummy that requires a fair amount of skill and an element of luck. Don't ever ask him about the solitaire game with piles of tiles - that's a completely different thing, and nothing to do with real Mahjong!
























