Paul Coates
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
Hood River, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Coates is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with over 10 years of experience building and scaling full-stack web applications across startups and large enterprises, currently at Salesforce. He blends deep backend expertise (Golang, Ruby, Java) with frontend skills (React) and cloud-native practices on AWS to deliver reliable, high-availability services and internal platforms. As a technical lead he has driven cross-functional initiatives—from automated ticket classification and recommendation systems at Kickstarter to core platform services at Maxwell Health—while mentoring teams and improving engineering processes. He contributes to open-source tooling for API design, notably enhancing Graphiti’s backend filtering DSL with validation, refactoring, and test coverage. Based in Hood River, Oregon, Paul pairs long-term systems thinking with a hands-on approach to shipping production-grade software and quietly excels at turning legacy systems into scalable, monitored services.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Android Development, Android Development at Big Nerd Ranch ClassSoftware Engineering Technology, Software Engineering Technology at Oregon Institute of TechnologyElectrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Baker College Online
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
apidoc10
api-server10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
rails9
json-api9
rspec9
microservices8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
graphiti-api/graphiti
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Stylish Graph APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Graphiti API, a project focused on building stylish Graph APIs, as indicated by the repository description and topics. Their work involved the development of a `filter_group` DSL (Domain Specific Language) to enhance API filtering capabilities, including the implementation of validation logic and error handling. They refactored existing code, changing the `FilterGroup` module to `FilterGroupValidator` class for better organization. Furthermore, they added testing via specs for this new DSL, and refined error messages.
ruby-on-railsapigraphitirailsruby
chiliburger/graphiti
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Stylish Graph APIs
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 5 branches in 7 days
apistylishgraphqlgraph
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