JMPAUL

Career Timeline

20+ years of software development, team leadership, and C-suite roles — building products from the ground up, guiding teams to success, and providing strategic direction at the executive level.

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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.
ReactTanStack TableRete.jsTheiaTemporalElectronGreat ExpectationsDockerArgo CDKubernetesNATS
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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.
BlockchainDevOpsSecurityScrumTPS
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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.
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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.
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Cure Crystals

Holistic wellness and crystal identification app built in Flutter.

NodeJSReactNext.jsFlutterDeck.glONNXPostgresMongoDBRedisAWSDrupalWordPress
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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.
ShopifyDevOpsVendor Management
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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).
CraftCMSWordPressJSON APIsCloud Autoscaling
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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.
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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.
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B.S. coursework in New Media & Communication Technology (COT).

  • 2004 NCAA National Fencing Champion.
  • US National Fencing Team member.
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