Paul Alden
Senior Ruby Developer at OLIO • Share More, Waste Less
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Alden is a Senior Ruby Developer with 12 years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails systems for mission-driven organisations and agencies. Based in Worthing, England, he has led core upgrades, dockerised monoliths for developer onboarding, and owned high-impact integrations such as vector-based semantic search with Qdrant and OpenAI embeddings. At OLIO he architected AI-driven content moderation and reporting pipelines that stopped complex fraud and misuse while cutting manual review costs, and he regularly mentors and recruits Ruby talent across the company. His background includes migrating legacy platforms to cloud-native, open-source products and restoring mission-critical charity sites that generate millions in donations. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with cross-team knowledge sharing, he also started and runs bi-weekly backend chapters to break down silos. He brings a hands-on, product-focused approach that balances technical depth with measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
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Github Skills (200)
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ruby10
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ubiquity10
currency10
spree10
marketplace10
ecommerce10
graphql10
javascript10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
prdanelli/dotfiles
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:456 commits, 2 PRs, 224 pushes in 2 years
samvera-labs/hyrax-orcid
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Hyrax-Orcid is a Hyrax/Hyku based integration for ORCID.
Contributions:171 commits, 4 PRs, 111 pushes in 8 months
ruby-on-railsruby-gemsamvera-communitysamveraruby
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