Paul Friedman
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Friedman is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Sonora, where he is rebuilding customer success with AI from the ground up. With 13 years of hands-on startup experience culminating in a Staff Engineer role at Carta, he blends product-minded engineering with systems-level architecture. Paul has progressed through engineering tiers across diverse stacks and industries, giving him a pragmatic view of shipping scalable, resilient software in fast-moving environments. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MBA with a BA in Philosophy, a background that informs both strategic decision-making and clear problem framing. Known for a concise, playful public persona, he favors building elegant solutions over flashy resumes. He thrives at the intersection of founder-level thinking and deep technical execution.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University at BuffaloMBA, MBA at Washington State University
Github Skills (126)
mac-app-store10
content-security-policy10
homebrew-cask10
sketchup10
cookie10
headers10
hsts10
bundle9
middleware9
rating9
defaults9
percy9
cli9
taxonomy9
ruby9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paulfri/paulfri.dev
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Personal website. 🌊
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
reactnextjs
paulfri/luchadeer
Feb 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:130 commits, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 3 months
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