Paul Hitz
Director Of Engineering at Dun & Bradstreet
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolPaul Hitz is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, highly available systems and leading global development teams from hands-on delivery to strategic alignment. At Dun & Bradstreet he progressed from senior developer to director, launching mission-critical APIs (D&B Direct+) and the company’s first Generative AI product, ChatD&B, while driving multi-region, fault-tolerant architectures with sub-300ms SLAs. He’s skilled at recruiting and scaling high-performing teams, instituting robust Agile practices, and instilling a cost-aware approach to cloud infrastructure. Known as an effective communicator and mentor, Paul pairs technical depth in RESTful APIs and scalable systems with strong cross-functional collaboration at the executive level. His background combines enterprise-grade delivery (supporting products that generate substantial revenue) with a curiosity for innovation demonstrated by running company-wide hackathons and RDI initiatives. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he holds an MSc in Software Engineering and a First Class BSc, blending rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic, production-focused leadership.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at University College Cork
English
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Github Skills (31)
testing10
chrome-extension10
restful10
google-chrome10
api10
rest-client10
rest10
chrome9
rest-api9
google-tag-manager6
yellow6
android-app4
react4
angulartics3
angularjs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
paulhitz/SueCasa
Apr 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 years
company-managementjavascriptproperty-management
paulhitz/speaking-is-fun
Apr 2015 - Mar 2023
A site aimed at helping children with phonological disorders.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years
reactdisordersreactjsespnedtech
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