Paul Doerwald is Chancellor of Liquid Media, a boutique web software development shop located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. He and his team develop cutting-edge web applications, built primarily using Ruby and Ruby on Rails framework. Some of Liquid Media’s customers include CTV Television, Urtak, the Land Trust Alliance, the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association and WeGoWeGo.
Paul has been a software developer and entrepreneur since 1999 after graduating with a Bachelors of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University. In 2010 he completed a Masters of Software Engineering from the University of Oxford.
Together with his staff and colleagues from The Hub, he started the Friday Afternoon Hack, a weekly opportunity for developers around the city to meet and keep their technical skills sharp. It has also resulted in numerous opportunities to mentor programming students and help them get placed in good jobs around the city. In the coming year, the Friday Afternoon Hack will be expanded and advertised around the city with a campaign to attract more students and other technology professionals and that Halifax can mature into an east coast technology hub.
When he’s not working, Paul enjoys cooking, fine wine and fine food, and traveling. He also doesn’t mind a game of golf, tennis or a bit of sailing. His favourite games are Diplomacy and Scrabble.