Paul Amelin
Senior Software Engineer at Unmind
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Amelin is a senior software engineer and tech lead with nine years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer portals, and automation tooling across Java, Go and TypeScript stacks. He has driven measurable productivity gains—cutting service setup from a week to under an hour at Expedia—and led teams to deliver DORA metrics, ChatOps/StackStorm automation, and Backstage-based internal developer portals. Comfortable from architecture to hands-on implementation, Paul blends platform engineering, DevOps and product collaboration to streamline delivery pipelines on AWS and Kubernetes. He also contributes to the open Backstage ecosystem, adding UI and integration work for StackStorm plugins, reflecting a pragmatic interest in improving developer experience. Based in the UK, he pairs strong technical breadth (databases, messaging, CI/CD) with a track record of coaching and inclusive team leadership.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer science and econometrics, Master’s Degree Computer science and econometrics at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
English, Polish, Russian
Github Skills (17)
apim10
javascript10
apic10
typescript10
integrations10
backstage10
api10
typescript-types10
portal10
developper10
typescripts10
react10
testing9
microservices8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily involve implementing and testing features for the Backstage developer portal, specifically integrating a StackStorm plugin. The code changes include adding UI components such as execution panels and tables, developing API client tests, and modifying existing components to support the integration with StackStorm. The user also focused on ensuring the UI/UX of the plugin, linking to relevant documentation, and adding missing configuration settings.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
HotelsDotCom/flyte
May 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 commits in 4 years 1 month
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