Paul Chesnais
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Chesnais is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building large-scale search and infrastructure systems at LinkedIn. Rising through multiple engineering levels since joining in 2017, he combines deep technical expertise in search infrastructure with a proven track record of leading cross-functional projects that improve platform reliability and relevance. A Cornell CS graduate, Paul began his professional journey with internships at IFTTT and FireForge, which shaped his pragmatic approach to shipping production-quality software. Known for translating complex system requirements into scalable designs, he balances hands-on coding with mentorship and architectural ownership. Though primarily focused on backend infrastructure, his career demonstrates an eye for product impact and operational excellence across distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Cornell University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (183)
programming-language10
golang-cli10
go-language10
avl-tree10
swagger10
zookeeper10
proto10
gossip10
red-black-tree10
rest-api10
microservices10
cobra10
getopt10
trie10
stack10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PapaCharlie/TetrisBot
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
PapaCharlie/cobra
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 10 months
golanggo-cliinteractionscommand-linecli
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