Paul Bulkley-logston
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Bulkley-logston is a distributed systems engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating reliable, high-scale services in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently running distributed systems at Meta. He has held hands-on SRE and engineering roles at Cockroach Labs and 15Five, where he led SLO/SLI strategy, CI/CD, and multi-VPC AWS deployments while mentoring teams. Paul combines industry practice with academia as an adjunct professor at Columbia, developing graduate-level Python curricula that emphasize rigorous data analysis. His open-source contributions include improving PyVideo’s data tooling and documentation, demonstrating an attention to developer experience and reproducible data processes. A recent MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins complements a diverse background that ranges from emergency medical work to long-form improvisation, reflecting a practical, calm approach to high-pressure systems and collaborative problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityReal Estate Finance, Real Estate Finance at NYU School of Professional StudiesLong Form Improvisation, Long Form Improvisation at Upright Citizen's BrigadeLong Form Improvisation, Long Form Improvisation at iO ChicagoEmergency Medical Technician - Basic, Emergency Medical Technician - Basic at San Francisco Paramedic AssociationProgram on Negotiation, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law SchoolTechnician, Phlebotomy, Technician, Phlebotomy at Contra Costa Medical Career CollegeMusical Improvisation, Musical Improvisation at The Peoples Improv TheaterBachelors of Science, Chemical Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Chemical Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (7)
documentation10
python9
json9
datasets8
video-conferencing7
conferencing7
360-video6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pyvideo/data
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Python related videos and metadata powering PyVideo.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 318 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the repository's documentation and contribution guidelines. They added and refined documentation files, including `CONTRIBUTING.rst`, `README.rst`, and `CONTRIBUTORS.rst`, providing clear instructions for contributing data and outlining the project's structure. The user also made changes to the documentation to include specific details about data formatting, licensing, and contribution processes, enhancing clarity for contributors. Furthermore, the user added tools to aid in managing, validating, and reformatting the data.
pythonvideosdatasetconferencesvideo
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