Paul Bramsen
Staff Software Engineer, Security at Airbnb
Goleta, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bramsen is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in security with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems at Airbnb and a BS/MS in CS from UC Berkeley. He has led cross-functional efforts to harden data platforms for GDPR and SOX compliance—designing fine-grained S3 access controls, HDFS enforcement via Apache Ranger, and storage-layer permission translation—and progressed from intern to staff engineer at the same company. His background spans data infrastructure, distributed systems, and security operations, including running large HDFS/Hive/Presto/YARN clusters and responding to penetration test findings. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved Dr. Elephant’s backend to support Airflow and Spark/Hadoop resource management, reflecting a knack for practical performance and observability improvements. Based in Goleta, CA, he pairs academic experience teaching computer security with hands-on engineering to deliver auditable, privacy-first data systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
hadoop9
scala9
airflow9
apache-spark9
testing7
objective-c6
ios6
macos6
entity-framework6
coredata6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/dr-elephant
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Dr. Elephant is a job and flow-level performance monitoring and tuning tool for Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 26 PRs, 139 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed significantly to Dr. Elephant's back-end functionality, focusing on improving the system's robustness and expanding its capabilities. Their work included enhancing the resource manager selection process for Hadoop and Spark, adding support for the Airflow scheduler, and configuring parameters for Spark logging. Moreover, the user made performance improvements by refactoring code and fixing bugs in the flow and job history pages. These changes improved Dr. Elephant's capabilities and maintainability.
performance-monitoringelephantapachebig-dataspark
paulbramsen/gdpfs
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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