Paul Bergeron
Staff Software Engineer at Gamma
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bergeron is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and developer tooling across startups and large platforms. He’s held senior technical and leadership roles—from CTO at fast-moving startups to Staff Engineer positions—delivering production ML/NLP and advertising infrastructure at LinkedIn and data-first platforms at companies like Moloco and Gamma. A pragmatic full-stacker and database specialist, he’s contributed notable open-source work such as improving sql.js to run SQLite in the browser and adding Cassandra support to the migrate Go library, demonstrating depth in storage, migrations, and performance. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions and for turning messy data problems into reliable, test-covered systems. Outside formal roles he blends curiosity and craftsmanship—refactoring for clarity, adding transactional tests, and optimizing IO—aiming to build lasting, maintainable software.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of MaineHigh School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Massabesic High School
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Github Skills (31)
database-migrations10
javascript10
sqlite10
admin10
cassandra10
databases10
database-administration10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
go10
driver10
device-driver10
sql10
emscripten10
database-migration10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dinedal/textql
Jan 2014 - Jul 2021
Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 108 commits, 27 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the textql project. Their work focused on improving the handling of file paths, especially those using the tilde character. They implemented prepared statements for SQL insertion, and refactored file and stdin opening to improve code clarity. The user also made performance optimizations, loading data within transactions, and refactored parts of the code.
csvtsvstructuredsqlstructured-text
sql-js/sql.js
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
A javascript library to run SQLite on the web.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 23 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the sql-js/sql.js project by updating and maintaining the codebase. Key contributions include converting CoffeeScript examples to JavaScript, merging branches, and modifying build processes to support different versions of the library, including one with memory growth enabled. Additionally, the user addressed documentation issues, improving clarity and usability. They also added a test for transactions to increase the test coverage.
javascript-libraryemscriptenjavascriptsqlsqlite3
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