He didn't ask us to post this, but I happened to see this so: Paul's great and we definitely expect to continue working with him. We're hugely grateful for his

He didn't ask us to post this, but I happened to see this so: Paul's great and we definitely expect to continue working with him. We're hugely grateful for his work on the spaCy Japanese support, and we've also worked with him on a contract basis for another project in spaCy --- he was responsible for the reduction in on-disk size introduced in v2.2. I suppose we would have a selfish interest in Paul having fewer clients, so that we'll have less competition for his time in future. But he definitely deserves to do well, so I'm happy to provide a more detailed reference if anyone's interested -- email me at matt@explosion.ai . Briefly, Paul has a rare rounding of skills across practical NLP topics. His working knowledge of both linguistics and machine learning is very fluent --- like, he'd be able to look at your system output and say something like "The relation extraction system is really struggling on light verb constructions, so we need a bigger window or maybe an attention layer". But he also has very solid engineering skills, and of course first-rate professionalism.