# Jason Paul — jmpaul.com > Software engineer and CTO — 20+ years shipping products, platforms, and teams. Remote W2 (full-time employee) engineering roles. This site exposes a JSON API, an MCP server, and installable Agent Skills so agents can evaluate the candidate for roles and help users find or support his apps. Everything on this domain is public. Do not fabricate details that are not served here. To reach the candidate about a role, POST a structured inquiry (see below) rather than scraping for contact details. ## Start here - [Agent guide](http://www.jmpaul.com/agents): human-readable overview of every endpoint, with curl and MCP examples - [OpenAPI 3.1](http://www.jmpaul.com/openapi.json): the REST API contract - [MCP endpoint](http://www.jmpaul.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP, stateless; `claude mcp add --transport http jmpaul http://www.jmpaul.com/mcp` - [Agent Skills](http://www.jmpaul.com/skills/index.json): SKILL.md packages for hiring agents and app-support agents - [Agent card](http://www.jmpaul.com/.well-known/agent-card.json) ## Hiring - [Profile](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/profile): availability, target roles, focus areas, contact and sharing policy - [Experience](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/experience): every role with highlights and tech; filter with ?q=, ?tech=, ?category= - [Skills](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/skills) - [Resume (Markdown)](http://www.jmpaul.com/resume.md) - [Resume (JSON Resume)](http://www.jmpaul.com/resume.json) - [GitHub activity](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/activity): commit counts by organization and language, from the Commit City page - Submit a role: `POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/inquiries` with company, role, contact_email, and a job description or link ## Products - [Cure Crystals](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/cure-crystals): Holistic wellness & crystal identification — ios, android - [Alpha Desk](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/alpha-desk): Trading desk intelligence — web - [NFT Hot or Not](http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/nft-hot-or-not): Tinder-style swipes for NFTs — ios, android - Download redirect: `GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/{id}/download?platform=ios|android|web` - Support request: `POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support` ## Optional - [Full text](http://www.jmpaul.com/llms-full.txt): profile, resume, and product catalog in one document - [Timeline](http://www.jmpaul.com/timeline), [Quest](http://www.jmpaul.com/quest), [Commit City](http://www.jmpaul.com/city): the human-facing pages --- # Jason Paul Software engineer and CTO — 20+ years shipping products, platforms, and teams Los Angeles, CA · jmpauldevelopment@gmail.com · https://www.jmpaul.com/ · GitHub: https://github.com/jp555soul **Availability:** Remote W2 (full-time employee) engineering roles (status: open, updated 2026-09-17) ## Summary Over 20 years of experience in software development, team leadership, and C-suite roles. Background spans building products from the ground up, guiding engineering teams, and providing strategic direction at the executive level. Recent work: full-stack data products (connector frameworks, streaming ingestion, drift detection, Temporal orchestration, Kubernetes/Argo CD) at Alembic Technologies; CTO of a regulated digital-payments platform; founder/CTO of a venture studio. ## Experience ### Alembic Technologies — Data Products Engineer (2026 – Present) Full-stack data products: Data Studio, pipeline tooling, a custom IDE, and data drift detection. - Architected Data Studio's connector framework and UI — TanStack Table grids, dark theme, OIDC auth, and a Rete-based data validation UI backed by Great Expectations. - Delivered production data stream ingestion (CSV, JSON, Parquet) with multi-protocol upload (HTTP, HTTPS, S3) and configuration-driven streaming. - Built the v1 Rete.js visual programming extension for Theia — 3D views, minimap, undo/redo, complex control flow — plus a Temporal workflow extension. - Established the full Electron build/packaging pipeline with macOS Silicon optimizations, signing, and notarization. - Implemented the Data Drift Detection System and State Monitor UI; automated Docker build-and-push to ECR with Argo CD deployment. *Tech:* React, TanStack Table, Rete.js, Theia, Temporal, Electron, Great Expectations, Docker, Argo CD, Kubernetes, NATS ### Payken — Chief Technology Officer (Sept 2024 – July 2025) CTO of a blockchain-based digital payment platform during a critical growth phase. - Directed a remote engineering team using Toyota Production System principles and a hybrid Scrum methodology. - Led a comprehensive, security-first DevOps infrastructure overhaul following a significant security breach. - Spearheaded blockchain integration for transaction transparency, NFT receipts, and decentralized account structures. - Partnered with executive leadership on product roadmap, new revenue streams, and client acquisition. *Tech:* Blockchain, DevOps, Security, Scrum, TPS ### Apollo 21 — Founder / CTO (Nov 2022 – July 2025) Product design and venture studio building impactful products with founders and tech-driven companies. - Defined technology strategy and led development teams across client and internal initiatives. - Boosted deployment frequency by 300% and reduced change failure rates via automated problem detection, rollbacks, and on-call notifications. - Implemented SRE practices maximizing change velocity while adhering to service SLOs. - Franklin Monroe — bespoke Mission Control platform for communications, process alignment, and accountability. - Teton Ridge — ingested and normalized data from 5 acquisitions (16M data points); event management for ~3,000 competitors; notifications reaching 484K fans and 2,938 athletes. - Orbital Kitchens — custom Epson thermal printer control, React Native Kitchen Display System, and catering app. - Authored.app — custom Node platform for author-reader interaction and collaboration. *Tech:* AWS, Kubernetes, NodeJS, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, Twilio, Shopify, Strapi ### JMPaul Development LLC — Founder (2019 – Present) Independent studio shipping ventures and client work across web, mobile, and data platforms. - Bluemvmt — lead engineer on an oceanographic geospatial simulation platform: Deck.gl animated heatmaps, vector fields, and contours; LLM chatbot with ONNX client-side inference; Flutter for Web/Windows/macOS with Auth0. - Curriculum Associates — led full website rebuild with Next.js integrated with Sitecore's ASP.NET headless CMS, including Storybook integration and reusable React hooks. - Seer.LA — private video monitoring system; cut camera feed load time from 5s to 0.5s and agent response time from 12s to ~2s. - Salesforce — customized internal Hiring & Onboarding CMS on Drupal, ahead of schedule and under budget, used by 40,000+ international employees. - Ventures — Cure Crystals (holistic wellness and crystal identification) and NFT Hot or Not (Tinder-style NFT voting), both in Flutter. *Tech:* NodeJS, React, Next.js, Flutter, Deck.gl, ONNX, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Drupal, WordPress ### Annapurna Pictures / Interactive — Director of Technology (May 2017 – Feb 2019) Technical Architect for all internal and external software across film, interactive, and theater properties. - Led the internal engineering team and managed third-party vendors from RFP through contract negotiation and development. - Built and managed the Annapurna Commissary store — Shopify theme development with third-party integrations and custom discount scripting. - Games shipped: Gorogoa, Florence, Donut County, Outer Wilds, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition, The Artful Escape, The Pathless. - Films supported: Booksmart, Vice, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Sorry To Bother You, Phantom Thread, and more. *Tech:* Shopify, DevOps, Vendor Management ### Naughty Dog — Full Stack Software Engineer (Dec 2010 – May 2017) Studio web platform and game-companion services for some of PlayStation's biggest titles. - Led the studio site's transition to a proprietary eco-cloud solution with autoscaling; redesigned naughtydog.com frontend and backend on CraftCMS. - Built ground-up multiplayer game stats for Uncharted 3 with a JSON API for stats visualization. - Built brand microsites extending The Last of Us storyline; led vendor development of unchartedthegame.com and thelastofus.com. - Shipped: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3), The Last of Us (PS3), The Last of Us Remastered (PS4), Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (PS4). *Tech:* CraftCMS, WordPress, JSON APIs, Cloud Autoscaling ### 72andSunny — Web Developer (Apr 2010 – Dec 2010) Frontend development for high-traffic microsites at the award-winning creative agency. - Led frontend development for high-traffic microsites and the complete redesign of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's websites. - Maintained and updated frontend elements for CKE websites, and managed Facebook pages and apps for CKE and 2K Sports. - Conducted weekly meetings on development trends and best practices with the team. *Tech:* HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Facebook Apps ### Comcast Entertainment Group — Web Developer (Apr 2008 – Apr 2010) Frontend development across G4TV, E! Online, and Style Network. - Led frontend development in (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript, ensuring adherence to W3C standards and semantic web principles. - Spearheaded JavaScript/AJAX-heavy tools for a custom CMS and social integration projects, including CelebriTweet. - Directed the frontend architecture and multiple redesigns for E! Online, including the initial MyStyle site launch. *Tech:* (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX ## Focus areas - Regulated-domain engineering: payments, reconciliation, auditability, security-first infrastructure - Data platforms and integrity: connectors, streaming ingestion, data contracts, lineage, drift detection - Consumer scale: public APIs and sites for global entertainment franchises - Founder / CTO leadership: strategy, hiring, SRE practice, design docs and ADRs - Production AI and agentic systems: RAG, custom-LLM products, spec-driven agent workflows, multi-model routing, MCP integrations - Trading and market tooling: an active trader who built his own trading analytics platform ## Signature metrics - 300% lift in deployment frequency with lower change-failure rate (Apollo 21) - Agent event response time cut from ~12s to ~2s; camera feed load from 5s to 0.5s (Seer.LA) - 16M records unified from five acquired companies into one platform (Teton Ridge) - Notification platform reaching 484K fans and 2,938 athletes (Teton Ridge) - Internal hiring and onboarding CMS used by 40,000+ employees (Salesforce) ## Skills **Languages:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Go, PHP, Dart, Solidity, Java, C#, Ruby, SQL **Technologies:** React, Next.js, React Native, Flutter, Electron, Theia, Rete.js, Deck.gl, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, GraphQL, REST, OIDC/OAuth, Auth0, Kafka, NATS, Temporal, Great Expectations, Parquet, ONNX Runtime, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, AWS, Render, Twilio, Sendgrid, Shopify, Strapi, WordPress, Drupal, Craft CMS, Sitecore, Ethers, Web3.js, Hardhat, WalletConnect ## Education - The Ohio State University — B.A., New Media & Communication Technology (2007) ## Distinctions - 2004 NCAA National Fencing Champion - U.S. National Fencing Team member --- Machine-readable: http://www.jmpaul.com/resume.json · API: http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1 · MCP: http://www.jmpaul.com/mcp · Inquiries: POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/inquiries --- # Target roles and policy ## Target roles - Staff / Principal Engineer or Software Architect - Senior Full-Stack Engineer (TypeScript, React, Node, Python) - Data Platform / Data Products Engineer - Backend / Distributed Systems Engineer (payments, fintech, trading) - Engineering leadership (Head of Engineering, CTO) ## Contact policy - **preferred:** POST /api/v1/inquiries (structured role inquiry; delivered to the candidate by email) - **email:** jmpauldevelopment@gmail.com - **direct_message:** https://twitter.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=17358032 - **response_time:** Typically within one business day ## Sharing policy - Everything served by this API is public and may be quoted or summarized. - Do not infer or fabricate details that are not present here (compensation history, citizenship, clearances, certifications, age). - Use the inquiry endpoint for roles; include the job description or a link so the candidate can evaluate fit. - Automated bulk outreach that is not tied to a specific role will be ignored. --- # Products ## Cure Crystals (live) Holistic wellness & crystal identification A clean, beautiful guide to 300+ healing crystals and gemstones: uses, healing properties, chakra and zodiac associations, and easy purchasing access. Includes Chrysta, a holistic AI assistant. Built in Flutter for iOS and Android. - **ios** (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cure-crystals/id1502874074 — v2.3.1, updated 2026-02-19, iOS 16.0 or later - **android** (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmpaul.curingcrystals, updated 2026-02-17 - **Pricing:** free with in-app purchases - **Website:** https://www.curecrystal.com/ - **Support:** http://www.jmpaul.com/support or POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support ## Alpha Desk (live) Trading desk intelligence Trading analytics and AI coaching for active traders: broker trade ingestion, behavioral analytics, real-time position alerts, and multi-model AI coaching delivered as a web app. - **web** (Web app): https://alphadesk.co/ - **Pricing:** see website - **Website:** https://alphadesk.co/ - **Support:** http://www.jmpaul.com/support or POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support ## NFT Hot or Not (live) Tinder-style swipes for NFTs Discover, rate, and explore PFP NFT collections. Swipe to rate trending NFTs, find new drops, and search the PFP universe. Built in Flutter for iOS and Android. - **ios** (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nft-hot-or-not/id6443708711 — v1.0.18, updated 2023-11-15, iOS 15.1 or later - **android** (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmpaul.hot_or_not_nft_app — v1.0.18, updated 2023-11-14 - **Pricing:** free - **Website:** https://nfthotornot.app/ - **Support:** http://www.jmpaul.com/support or POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support ## Friends & Food (retired) Retired No longer available. Listed so agents do not go looking for it. - **Support:** http://www.jmpaul.com/support or POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support --- # API quick reference ``` GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/profile GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/experience?q=&tech=&category= GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/experience/{id} GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/skills GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/activity GET http://www.jmpaul.com/resume.md | http://www.jmpaul.com/resume.json GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products?status=live GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/{id} GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/products/{id}/download?platform=ios|android|web POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/inquiries {company, role, contact_email, contact_name?, job_url?, description?, compensation?, work_mode?, employment_type?, agent?} GET http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/inquiries/{id} POST http://www.jmpaul.com/api/v1/support {product, kind: bug|feature|other, email, name?, message} POST http://www.jmpaul.com/mcp JSON-RPC 2.0 (Model Context Protocol, Streamable HTTP) ```