Software Engineer
2014 - 2016Venmo- Revamped Venmo's user search with Elasticsearch.
- Integrated the app with third-party APIs to make linking a bank account to Venmo a more seamless process.
- Overhauled the friendship and user request logic, designing everything from the Cassandra and MySQL schemas up to the RESTful API consumed by internal and external clients.
- Re-architected Venmo's funding source schema, logic, and API, and migrated all existing data into the new model.
- As part of a team of three developers, built the back-end foundation for Pay with Venmo.
Technologies: Python, Django, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, JavaScriptSoftware Engineering Intern
2012 - 2013Urtak- Wrote an internal metrics dashboard and daily digest email using Sphinx for data collection.
- Created daily digest emails for Urtak platform publishers and users, based off my preceding work on internal metric digests.
- Built an "Explore" page to enable Urtak discovery by end users.
- Built a system to store URLs hosting any Urtak iframe from which questions were submitted or responses made.
- Designed and built a "shared question" system in order to track viral responses.
- Built a flagging system that allowed users to flag inappropriate questions and publishers to take actions on these flagged questions.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis, CoffeeScript, Sphinx, Haml, Rabl
Paul Padier
API Design Developer in Tokyo, Japan
Member since February 24, 2016
Paul has had the pleasure of working with a wide variety of technologies since teaching himself TI-BASIC 15 years ago. Most comfortable with Ruby and Python, he is familiar with other tech stacks and always eager to learn new ones. Paul's studies were focused on database design and software architecture, and since then, he has also focused on RESTful API development. He is passionate about writing elegant code that runs well and reads well.
Paul is now available for hire
Experience
- SQL, 6 years
- Python, 5 years
- API Design, 4 years
- REST, 4 years
- Test-driven Development (TDD), 4 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR), 4 years
- Agile Software Development, 4 years
- Functional Programming, 4 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
UNIX, Sublime Text or Vim, Git
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was rewriting and migrating Venmo's funding source system from the database to the new RESTful API while its popularity was exploding.
Employment
Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, C#, Ruby, HTML/CSS, Haml, Java, Rust, Groovy, Scala, CoffeeScript, JavaScriptStorage
MySQL, Elasticsearch, Sphinx Search Engine, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQLFrameworks
Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), BootstrapLibraries/APIs
API Development, React, GitHub API, Slack API, Devise, ActiveRecordTools
GitHub, Slack, Git, Jira, Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Celery, ConfluenceParadigms
Functional Programming, REST, Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), ScrumOther
API Design, Debugging, ActiveAdminPlatforms
Heroku
Education
- Master's degree in Software Engineering2013 - 2014Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard - Belfort, France
- Exchange program during studies towards a Master's degree in Software Engineering2013 - 2013Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Valparaíso, Chile
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science2009 - 2013Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard - Belfort, France
- Exchange program during studies towards a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science2011 - 2011Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim, Norway
