Paul Bissex
Principal Software Engineer at PowerDash
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bissex is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years building high-traffic, revenue-generating web applications primarily in Python and Django. He combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—driving architecture changes, mentoring teams, and improving engineering processes across startups and large enterprises. Paul co-wrote one of the first Django books and runs dpaste.com, reflecting deep practical and community-facing expertise. His work spans back-end services, React front-ends, and AWS deployments, and he has led migrations from legacy stacks to modern Django/Python environments without disrupting operations. Based in Greenfield, MA, he is as comfortable writing technical specs and tests as he is running retrospectives and postmortems that boost team velocity and quality.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Literature, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Literature at Bard College
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Github Skills (200)
notebook10
ipython10
ruby10
python-client10
markdown10
qt10
pixelfed10
linux10
activitypub10
mastodon10
gmail-api10
qml10
ads10
jupyter10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pbx/Tic-Tac-Toe
Oct 2010 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
masschallenge/docker-django-boilerplate
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
A boilerplate hello-world django app inside a docker environment, not unlike the one used in impact-api.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
apipythonboilerplatedjangodocker-environment
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