Paul Cleary is a Platform Architect and Senior Staff Engineer with over two decades of R&D experience and a 13-year track record delivering resilient, production-grade distributed systems for enterprises and millions of users. He combines deep expertise in functional programming, actor systems, and streaming analytics with hands-on systems work in Rust, Elixir, Scala, Timely Dataflow and RocksDB to build middleware, real-time pipelines, and operational governance at scale. At Comcast he designed and drove adoption of large-scale configuration, DNS governance and distributed tracing systems used company-wide, and he continues to lead architecture and SLO rollout efforts at BlockFi. A pragmatic educator and organizer, he has trained hundreds of engineers, run internal conferences, and open-sourced approachable FP examples to ease adoption across teams. Known for turning research prototypes into production services, he routinely bridges low-level performance engineering with high-level architecture and developer enablement.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in CIS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in CIS, Computer Science at Temple University
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Paul Cleary - Platform Architect Senior Staff Engineer