Paul Hepworth
Ex-CTO Startup Slipstream
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hepworth is a seasoned technology leader and former CTO with 17+ years building and scaling distributed engineering teams from pre-product-market-fit startups through growth-stage companies. He specializes in transforming chaotic engineering organizations into high-throughput, quality-focused teams by modernizing CI/CD, increasing test coverage, cutting cloud costs, and embedding continuous improvement practices. Known for hands-on turnaround work, Paul has driven releases from fortnightly to daily, stabilized mission-critical platforms to 99.9% uptime, and compressed long roadmaps into accelerated delivery cycles. He partners closely with product and design to align orgs, develops people systems that retain and promote top talent, and coaches leaders to make teams sustainably autonomous. Based in Mountain View, he now helps seed-to-Series B founders “compress 18 months into 6,” applying a pragmatic, waste-eliminating approach to boost impact across complex distributed teams. One less obvious strength: he consistently combines deep technical fixes with cultural change, so improvements stick after he transitions out.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBSIS Information System, BSIS Information System at University of San FranciscoStanford Continuing Studies
Github Skills (14)
codeclimate9
test-coverage9
coverage7
continuous-integration6
ruby5
rack4
proxy3
reverse-proxy2
rake1
rake-task1
rails1
localized1
unicode1
cldr1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peppyheppy/cpanel-passenger
May 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:15 commits in 12 days
peppyheppy/active_merchant
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
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