About-Paul.txt

Me

Hey there--Paul here! I'm a:

  • 🎨 multi-discipline artist
  • 🎲 avid table-top gamer
  • 👨‍💻 professional software engineer (currently looking for work!)

Click on the shortcuts to learn more about my projects. If you want to get a hold of me, shoot me an email: me@paularmer.website.

Job History

Professional Experience

Sr. Software Engineer @ Autodesk, July 2019 - Oct 2022

Main technologies: React, Node.js, MongoDB, CircleCI

  • Lead the engineering efforts on many successful projects from product brief to deployed feature, giving regular status updates along the way.
  • Created tools, processes, and documentation to maintain and scale the i18n system implemented by my team.
  • Trained engineers on how to conduct technical interviews with empathy while still getting good signal from a candidate.
  • Presented about product deliveries and process experiments at quarterly division-wide meetings.
  • Regularly gave thoughtful, well-detailed feedback for all of my coworkers, especially during each of our biannual reviews.

Product Engineer @ Booking.com, Dec 2017 - June 2019

Main Technologies: Django, AngularJS, Postgres, Jenkins

  • Implemented features to an expansive AngularJS UI backed by a Django/Postgres web app for this B2B tourism-industry company.
  • Lead technical interviews assessing developer skills including front-end aptitude, API design principles, and cultural fit.
  • Developed onboarding guidelines for new junior level employees joining the engineering team.
  • Collaborated with teams worldwide to gather product requirements, provide customer success developer support, and coordinate deploys with other developers.

Web Engineer/Designer @ Study.com, July 2014 - Nov 2017

Main Technologies: Java, Spring, Typescript, AngularJS

  • Designed the UI for new features with product owners and would be the front-end engineer to implement them.
  • Delivered Teacher Share: a feature allowing teachers to assign lessons via email and record students' quiz scores in Google Classroom.
  • Solicited feedback from engineers to create the front-end code standards as we adopted LESS and TypeScript for the front-end.

Education

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Software Engineer, B.S.

Art

Oil Still Life, oil on canvas

Oil Still Life

Pop Poppies (Series), acrylic on cardstock

Pop Poppies

SF Parrot, oil on canvas

SF Parrot

Parrot Party (Series), acrylic on canvas

Party Parrots

Kite Shark, digital drawing

Kite Shark

Simple Character Sheet

I play a lot of TTRPGs that aren't Dungeons & Dragons. While I love handing out paper character sheets to my players, I have been known to forget to bring the character sheets to a session or two. So instead of printing out character sheets, I have them create them on this little app I made.

simplecharactersheet.com

Pandemic Legacy Board Game Tracker

NOTE: I made this before 2020

Track when the next epidemic will occur in your Pandemic Legacy board game.

pandemiclegacytracker.com

Climate Activist

I am making SF a greener, future-proof city through the SF Climate Emergency Coalition. Our little group has helped the board pass the All-Electric Building Ordinace for all new construction. We also helped the Department of the Environment (SFE) get funded out of the general funds for the first time in SF history.

I look forward to continue working with the Board to reach net-zero by 2040.