Paul Bissex
Senior Software Engineer at Finetune (A Prometric Company)
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bissex is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience building scalable web applications across startups and billion-dollar enterprises. He is currently Senior Software Engineer at Finetune, guiding an AI-human hybrid platform and steering the architecture transition from Hasura + Chalice to Django and Django Ninja, while elevating code review and process discipline. Paul co-authored "Python Web Development with Django," one of the early Django books, and runs dpaste.com, reflecting deep hands-on expertise and a knack for developer tooling. His technical breadth spans Django, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, React, HTML/CSS, testing, Git/Mercurial, and AWS, with a proven record of delivering systems that process millions of pageviews and generate significant revenue. Based in Greenfield, MA, he is an engineering leader and mentor who has run standups, retros, estimations, and postmortems, consistently advocating continuous improvement in engineering practices and organizations.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Languages and Literature, Computer Programming, B.A., Languages and Literature, Computer Programming at Bard College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pbx/Tic-Tac-Toe
Oct 2010 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
masschallenge/docker-django-boilerplate
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
A boilerplate hello-world django app inside a docker environment, not unlike the one used in impact-api.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
apipythonboilerplatedjangodocker-environment
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