Patrick Paul
Staff Software Engineer at Box
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Paul is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 15+ years of experience designing frontend architectures and leading teams across enterprise content management, fintech, and sports broadcast. He combines hands-on React and Node development with product-minded UX and accessibility leadership, having driven Box Shield and contributed key UI components to Box's design system. Skilled at mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, he regularly shapes web architecture, design systems, and API working groups while championing end-to-end testing and security/compliance UX. His background includes real-time data and broadcast-grade interactive experiences—building WebGL and streaming tooling for NFL, NASCAR, and MLB use cases—bringing low-latency, high-fidelity thinking to web interfaces. A five-time hackathon champion and active contributor to box-ui-elements, he blends rapid prototyping instincts with production-grade delivery. Outside work he recharges traveling, fishing, and golfing with his family, which keeps his pragmatic, user-focused engineering grounded.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Arizona State UniversityEngineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Electrical Engineering at West Valley College
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
component-design10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
preview-pane9
uploader9
previews9
accessibility9
link-preview9
live-preview9
document-preview9
app-preview9
file-upload9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
box/box-ui-elements
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the front-end of the `box-ui-elements` repository, focusing on the implementation and refinement of React components. Their work included fixing bugs related to the content uploader, sidebar, and shared link settings modal. They also added new UI components such as the TrialBadge, and refined existing ones like the classification badge. The user also worked on improving accessibility and updating design elements.
box-previewreactbox-content-pickerboxjavascript
patrickpaul/box-ui-elements
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Box UI Elements
Contributions:69 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 10 months
reactboxelementsui-elementsjavascript
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