Paul Biggar
Co-Founder & CEO at Darklang
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Biggar is a serial founder and technical CEO with 21 years building developer-focused platforms, best known for founding CircleCI and Darklang and most recently co-founding Tech for Palestine. He blends deep systems and compiler-level expertise (early work at Mozilla and contributions to Darklang’s F# backend) with product-led execution that scaled CI/CD into a category-defining service. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on backend engineering with strategic leadership, moving from low-level drivers and telecom systems to developer tooling and a language/runtime that aims to let teams ship full apps in hours. A PhD-trained engineer who mentored and contributed to open-source projects since his student days, he brings an unusual mix of academic rigor, shipping-first pragmatism, and nonprofit tech advocacy.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Trinity College DublinRecurse Center
Stackoverflow
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123answers
104questions
latex
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linux
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Github Skills (24)
serializable10
serializer10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
serialization10
deserialization10
api10
fsharp10
backend10
linux9
parsing9
compiler-construction9
latex9
data-storage9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
darklang/dark
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:947 reviews, 14374 commits, 2007 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Darklang project, focusing on F# code. Their work involved fixing and improving tests related to data storage, as well as implementing new features for the API, including serialization and deserialization. Furthermore, the user appears to have focused on enhancing and optimizing existing features within the project, and making the API more robust.
functional-programmingdarklangcloudbackendeditor
pbiggar/phc
Apr 2007 - Jul 2021
A compiler for PHP
Contributions:1 release, 2520 commits, 3 PRs in 14 years 5 months
compilerphp
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