Paul Vixie is the author of numerous computer programs and RFCs. He has contributed to the development of utility programs for the UNIX system. He is notably the author of SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron.

In 1988, he worked at DEC when he started working on the BIND program, of which he was the first author up to version 8.

He left the company in 1994 and founded the Internet Software Consortium with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support the development of BIND and other Internet applications.

He later founded his own company, Vixie Enterprises.