Paul Dowman
Senior Engineering Manager at OP Labs
Canada
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Top SchoolPaul Dowman is a senior engineering manager with 18 years of software experience and over a decade leading teams to deliver production-grade web and blockchain products. He’s currently scaling Ethereum at OP Labs after building blockchain and verifiable-compute efforts at Polygon Labs, Shopify, and EQTY Lab, and has a strong background in turning around struggling teams and shipping zero-to-one platform work. Paul blends hands-on engineering (early Rails, devops and AWS adopter) with organizational design—introducing unit testing, continuous deployment, and feature-flag driven delivery across teams. He founded and led a boutique consultancy that served both startups and enterprises, and previously shipped high-scale consumer projects and infrastructure tools like ec2onrails. Known for pragmatic leadership, he favors minimal overhead, cryptography-forward solutions, and aligning product focus with engineering execution. Based in Canada, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with deep technical roots in distributed systems and developer-facing products.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (154)
realtime10
javascript10
pos10
shopify-cli10
reactive-programming10
mixpanel10
build-system10
image-upload10
nodejs10
mongodb10
activemodel10
npm10
kissmetrics10
herokuapp10
rainbow10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pauldowman/balisong
Nov 2010 - Jan 2013
A blog-aware website for coders
Contributions:95 commits in 2 years 2 months
codersblog-aware
pauldowman/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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