Paul Downing
Freelance Software Engineer at No-company. (Self-employed.)
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Downing is a freelance software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient front-end architectures and test-driven applications, primarily with React/Redux, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails. He has led and scaled frontend teams—architecting Kava Labs’ real-time blockchain web app, driving a JavaScript-to-TypeScript conversion, and maintaining 80%+ test coverage—while also managing engineers and shipping CI/CD improvements. Comfortable as a hands-on IC or manager, he pairs deep API and testing expertise (Jest, Enzyme, RSpec, Capybara) with practical operational knowledge of AS2, FTP, SQL, and retail EDI standards like X12/EDIFACT. A collaborative mentor who learned to code independently, Paul creates onboarding guides, interview exercises, and workflows that reduce time-to-value and improve team velocity. He’s contributed full-stack enhancements to notable open-source projects such as the Keplr wallet for the Cosmos ecosystem, demonstrating an ability to work across integration, configuration, and frontend polish. Based in Denver, he’s exploring roles in sports, outdoors, or SaaS where his blend of product-focused engineering and process improvement can drive impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business and Sports Management, Bachelor's degree, Business and Sports Management at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (15)
ava10
cosmos-sdk10
configuration-management10
javascript10
blockchain10
browser-extension10
kawa10
typescript-types9
ethereum-wallet9
bitcoin-wallet9
typescript9
typescripts9
wallet9
crypto-wallet9
mobile-application8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chainapsis/keplr-wallet
Dec 2021 - May 2022
The most powerful wallet for the Cosmos ecosystem and the Interchain
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the Keplr wallet's support for the Kava blockchain within the Cosmos ecosystem. Their contributions included adding and updating support for Kava tokens like SWP, HARD, USDX, BNB, BUSD, BTCB, and XRPB. They also corrected coin gecko ids and updated Kava chain configuration details, demonstrating work on both the configuration and integration aspects of the wallet application. Additionally, they contributed to code formatting and linting issues.
interchainbrowser-extentioncosmos-sdkblockchainwalletconnect
downing034/pdowning
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Personal Site
Contributions:75 PRs, 76 pushes, 54 branches in 3 years 10 months
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