Mark Paul
Principal Engineer (Blockchain & Digital Assets) at Itheum
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolMark Paul is a principal engineer and founder with 20+ years building large-scale, production software across Web3, AI, and big data—currently leading blockchain and digital assets work at Commonwealth Bank while co-founding Itheum and an IP-safe AI music startup. He’s a polyglot technologist comfortable from serverless AWS backends to React/TypeScript front-ends and Rust-based systems, with hands-on experience shipping distributed computing and AI pipelines. Notable for bridging product and infrastructure, he designed tokenized personal-data and royalty systems that aim to unlock personal data sovereignty and safe AI remixing. An active open-source contributor (see github.com/newbreedofgeek) and self-described “midnight engineer,” he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery across healthtech and media sectors.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Computer Science, Higher National Diploma Computer Science at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)BCompSc Object Oriented Programming, BCompSc Object Oriented Programming at Monash University
Sinhalese, Tamil
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Github Skills (12)
nodejs10
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
react10
git6
mobile6
google-compute-engine6
amazon-web-services6
youtube6
android6
gitignore6
iphone6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
newbreedofgeek/react-stepzilla
May 2016 - Jun 2021
A React multi-step/wizard component for sequential data collection
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 145 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development of a React multi-step/wizard component. Their work included fixing build errors, creating a distribution file, and addressing issues related to the project's primary files. The user also made updates to the README file. Furthermore, they introduced new options and cleaned up the code, adding showStep and new footer button features.
reactreactjsjavascript
Itheum/itheumcore-evm
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Core EVM libraries and contracts for Itheum platform
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 38 commits in 1 year 2 months
evmblockchainethereumsmart-contracts
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