Paul Rayner · Cornwall, UKOutdoorsy Product Engineer
I’ve been an outdoor personal trainer, research exercise scientist and health coach, but now I’m a software developer. From London, currently based in Cornwall. Hiking, skiing or surfing somewhere beautiful, ideally.
Now
Living in Cornwall. Working at Opply as a senior product engineer. Building Sticky Coach on the side.
Projects I support
Things I’ve built
All projectsSticky Coach
A project I'm currently working on. A B2B2C app for health coaches and small gyms to get better results for their clients using habit coaching & behaviour change.
The Alpines
A 12-week mountain fitness programme for hikers and skiers, with its own training app for logging workouts and tracking progress. Built using Next.js, Tailwind, Clerk, Postgres and Drizzle.
Slope MapsNo longer running
A stylish website displaying ski resort piste maps from around the world. Built using Vite, tailwind and ImageKit
Writing & research
- Best Man Speech GuideEverything I learnt from writing my own speech.
- The Outdoor TrainerA guide on becoming an outdoor personal trainer.
- Childhood Obesity StudyI worked on a childhood obesity study for my dissertation and the results were published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
- Cystic Fibrosis StudyI worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital supporting a research study into exercise and cystic fibrosis.
How I got here
- 2002
Double glazing telesales
My first job, aged 15.
- 2006–2009
University of Essex
Sport science degree. My dissertation on childhood obesity was later published.
- 2009–2010
Chalet boy in the French Alps
A season of cooking, cleaning and skiing.
- 2010–2019
Helping people improve their health
Ran my own outdoor personal training business, then Habit and Health, online health coaching.
- 2019
Coding bootcamp
Retrained as a software developer.
- 2019–Today
Building products
Developer roles at the biggest wet wipe producer in the world, gym booking software, Fern and now Opply, plus side projects of my own.