Paul Crawford
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolPaul Crawford is an experienced technical executive and advisor with 17 years building and scaling web and mobile products, especially in social e-commerce, live selling and OTT video platforms. He grew CommentSold from early stage to a 300+ person organization as CTO, leading engineering, product and design while solving hard scaling and operational problems for retailers. Paul combines hands-on expertise in Go, Ruby on Rails, Node.js and iOS with deep experience in SaaS, subscription commerce, streaming and white‑label web/mobile experiences. Recently he’s been advising and co-founding startups while helping SMBs adopt remote product and engineering practices to support rapid hypergrowth. Known for prioritizing the people side of engineering, he hires and mentors strong teams and aligns technical decisions to business outcomes. Based in Calgary, he pairs a Computer Science background with a pragmatic, product-first approach to technical leadership.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc Computer Science, B. Sc Computer Science at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (29)
faye10
storekit10
verification9
in-app-purchase9
receipt-validation9
nodejs8
operation7
ios7
delta7
pipeline6
client-library6
golang5
api5
messaging5
etl4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pcrawfor/golanguk
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:40 commits in 22 days
pcrawfor/FayeObjC
Mar 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:67 commits in 2 years 7 months
objective-cclient-librarypub-submessagingfaye
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