Paul Kaplan
Senior Software Engineering Manager at LEGO Education
Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
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Paul Kaplan is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and shipping user-focused front-end systems and interactive educational tools. Now at LEGO Education, he leads teams while drawing on a deep technical background from MIT Media Lab’s Scratch project, where he contributed UI, rendering, and VM improvements across the core Scratch 3.0 stack. A physics-trained problem solver from the University of Chicago, Paul blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical product instincts honed earlier building web-based CAD/CAM at Inventables. He’s equally comfortable writing tests and low-level rendering fixes as designing better comment moderation and editor UX, and his open-source work shows a long-term commitment to improving learning-focused software. Based in Melrose, MA, he brings a research mindset to product engineering and a knack for turning subtle UI details into noticeably better user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Chicago
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Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 3321 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Scratch-gui project. Their work involved implementing features in the costume tab, sound-related components (including the sound library and editor), and the sprite selector. They also made significant changes to the direction picker and other interface elements to improve functionality and user experience.
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scratchfoundation/scratch-blocks
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:415 commits, 234 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the user interface elements of the Scratch Blocks library. They focused on improving the layout and styling of blocks, including adjustments to margins, spacing, and checkbox designs. They also implemented functionality for setting the drag mode and updated elements like the angle picker with an arrow svg and improved touch interactions. The contributions enhanced the visual presentation and user interaction within the Scratch Blocks environment.
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