Paul Barry
Co-Founder, CTO at Spark Golf
Severna Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Barry is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 18 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and mobile products, currently serving as CTO of Spark Golf. He has led engineering transformations at growth-stage companies—scaling teams from small cores to 70+ engineers, modernizing monoliths into React/Node/Rails stacks, and launching high-volume e-commerce and ordering platforms. A full-stack builder who still writes production code, Paul designed and maintains Spark Golf’s Rails/React/React Native apps and infrastructure while contributing to open-source projects like BrowserCMS. His background spans startups and large teams (OrderUp, Groupon, LivingSocial), where he delivered mission-critical systems for peak traffic, delivery logistics, and email at scale. Paul combines product-minded engineering with business-level responsibilities—helping shape strategy, financial models, and investor pitches—making him equally comfortable with architecture diagrams and boardroom discussions. Based in Severna Park, MD, he brings entrepreneurial grit, practical execution, and a long track record of turning complex operational needs into reliable software.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA MIS, BA MIS at Loyola University Maryland
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Github Skills (16)
html10
content-management-system10
cms10
rails10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
ruby-on-rails10
cm10
erb10
javascript9
activerecord9
rspec8
minitest8
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
browsermedia/browsercms
Mar 2009 - Jul 2009
BrowserCMS: Humane Content Management for Rails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:143 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the BrowserCMS project, primarily focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the user interface and backend logic. They addressed issues in areas like gemspec configuration, dashboard functionality, portlet management, and sitemap features. Additionally, they added unit tests for the dashboard controller and made adjustments to page template handling and attachment behavior. The work demonstrates a range of skills across the application's various components.
ruby-on-railscmsbrowserrailsruby
pjb3/curtain
Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
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