Paul Crawford
Advisor at Animikii Inc.
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 (19)
in-app-purchase10
nodejs9
ios8
objective-c8
pubsub8
go5
api5
etl5
pipeline4
activeresource4
data-pipeline4
golang3
gob2
go-client2
bigquery2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pcrawfor/iap_verifier
Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
Node.js implementation of iOS In App Purchase receipt verification
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 8 months
in-app-purchaseiosnodejs
pcrawfor/golanguk
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:40 commits in 22 days
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