Paul Cowan
Chief Executive Officer at CUTTING-EDGE SOLUTIONS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Cowan is a veteran frontend-focused software leader and CEO based in the UK with over two decades of hands-on development and 11 years of formal experience in modern full-stack roles. He specializes in delivering high-impact, developer-facing UIs and tooling, demonstrated by prolific open-source work (150+ merged PRs) and contributions to Backstage — improving scaffolder template metadata across backend and frontend. Comfortable architecting systems and shipping production code, he blends type-system enthusiasm with practical engineering to reduce delivery time and risk. As a founder and long-term contractor for major agencies and enterprises, he pairs technical leadership with mentoring and team delivery across React, Node, AngularJS and .NET stacks. Notably, at 53 he leverages deep institutional knowledge to produce outcomes faster than less-experienced teams, often focusing on developer productivity and template-driven workflows.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
scaffold10
typescript10
backstage10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
web-developer9
portal9
microservices8
microservices-application8
clojurescript6
emberjs6
clojure6
continuous-integration6
jquery6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 132 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the Backstage project by modifying and adding code to the scaffolder backend and frontend components, specifically focusing on the integration and handling of template metadata. They updated the template information model and incorporated the `entityMetadata` field across multiple modules to support the passing and utilization of template metadata, refactoring the `TemplateInfo` object to use an `entity` object. This user's work encompassed modifications to the `scaffolder-backend`, `scaffolder-common`, and frontend UI components, impacting the creation and use of software templates.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
thefrontside/simulacrum
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
A simulation platform for use during testing, during development and for high-fidelity application previews
Contributions:129 reviews, 486 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 9 months
high-fidelitypythontestingjavascriptsimulation
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