Paul Freeman
Engineering Lead at Caruso
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Freeman is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, observable, and scalable systems across cloud-native and decentralized platforms. Currently Engineering Lead at Caruso, he combines player-coach leadership with data-driven delivery—introducing DORA metrics, SLOs, and service ownership for 40+ services while keeping p99s under 10s on core paths. He has a track record of improving developer flow and reliability through practical playbooks, runbooks, and automation—previously cutting aging PRs by 90% with an AI-driven project manager and refactoring event pipelines in Go/K8s. Paul’s background spans production observability (OpenTelemetry across AWS/Azure), main-net libp2p networks, and high-uptime operations (>99.9%), reflecting both hands-on engineering and team coaching. With a Master’s in Computer Science and experience mentoring squads to trunk-based CI/CD and high test coverage, he blends deep technical craft with operational discipline and an eye for developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.87 (A+), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.87 (A+) at Oregon State UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.00 (A), Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.00 (A) at University of AucklandAssociate's Degree, Graphic Design, 3.80 (A+), Associate's Degree, Graphic Design, 3.80 (A+) at Portland Community College
English
Github Skills (62)
anaconda10
signal-processing9
earthquake9
python9
ultrasound9
science8
automation8
seismology8
toolbox8
go-server8
sampling7
obspy7
parity7
dht7
hypercube7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paul-freeman/rimworld-freewill
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Free Will mod for RimWorld Ideology
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 33 commits in 1 year 4 months
modideologyrimworld
PALab/place
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
Python package for laboratory automation, control, and experimentation
Contributions:6 releases, 537 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 11 months
pythonexperimentationlaboratorylaboratory-automationanaconda
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