Patrick Paul
Founder at Kitespark
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Paul is a founder and hardware-focused engineer with 13 years of experience building purpose-driven consumer devices that bridge embedded firmware, cloud services, and production tooling. He co-founded Astrohaus (maker of the crowdfunded Freewrite smart typewriter) and now leads Mixfinity, an e-ink, tape-inspired audio player incubated at Founders Inc’s Blueprint hardware accelerator. Through his consultancy Kitespark and prior work for aerospace clients at Buildsat, he delivers rapid prototypes and production-ready embedded systems using C/FreeRTOS, Python, JavaScript, and AWS backends. He also contributes to open-source authentication tooling, having updated social login providers in the popular django-allauth ecosystem. Based in New York, he combines product-first design with hands-on firmware expertise and a knack for turning nostalgic metaphors (mixtapes/typewriters) into modern connected hardware. An oft-overlooked strength is his fluency across the full device lifecycle—from prototype electronics to cloud integrations and manufacturing readiness.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Traverse City West Senior HighBA International Relations, BA International Relations at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (31)
social-auth10
python10
django10
authentication10
user-authentication10
social-authentication10
oauth10
mysql9
linux9
dropbox9
google9
evernote9
nginx9
registrator8
multiple-accounts8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pennersr/django-allauth
Dec 2014 - Mar 2018
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the allauth library by adding and updating social login providers. Their work included implementing initial support for Evernote OAuth, which involved creating adapter views and models. They also updated the Dropbox provider to use OAuth2 and the newer Dropbox v2 API. Additionally, they made Google provider updates, adding `prompt=consent` for reauthentication, and other minor changes.
xadminpythonpartyintegrateddjango-framework
pztrick/django-television
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Python and JavaScript library for use with Django and Channels 1.x
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
javascript-librarypythondjangojavascriptchannels
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