Paul Dann
Software Engineer at Whatnot
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Dann is a pragmatic software engineer with 18 years’ experience building fault-tolerant, low-latency systems and full-stack web platforms, currently contributing at Whatnot. He excels at turning vague product ideas into concrete architectures, favoring Domain-Driven, Hexagonal and Event-Driven designs to keep complex domains maintainable and testable. His hands-on background ranges from Elixir/BEAM-based distributed services and PostgreSQL-driven event workflows to systems work in Zig, Rust and C/C++, reflecting deep comfort across high-level services and low-level systems. Paul has led small teams and startups as a CTO, shipped production-grade Elixir cores that process hundreds of thousands of AMQP messages per day, and architected cross-cluster locking and workflow engines for SaaS products. A committed open-source and Linux user, he blends developer tooling, automation and pragmatic DevOps to streamline delivery and observability. Notably, his early self-directed systems work (including a 386 assembly bootable shell) signals a long-standing appetite for low-level problem solving alongside modern distributed design.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at University of Birmingham
English, French, Norwegian
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Github Skills (200)
autocomplete10
vim10
cryptocurrency10
linter10
nvim10
handbrake10
qtquick10
keyboard-layout10
spice10
zsh10
display-manager10
redmine10
php10
ueberauth10
python10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
giddie/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
flexibility-org/elastic
Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
A thin veneer over HTTPotion that talks to Elastic Search
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
elasticthinelastic-searchelasticsearch
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