Paul Karayan
Builder at Irregular Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPaul Karayan is a versatile builder and product-minded engineer with nearly two decades of experience shipping software at Silicon Valley startups and helping early teams scale to multi-billion dollar outcomes. He blends hands-on engineering, infrastructure and security leadership with product management and growth strategy—roles ranging from DevOps and infrastructure at PlanGrid and Primer.ai to product and marketing leadership at Addepar and Blockspring. As Principal at Irregular Engineering he consults across finance, marketing, and manufacturing, building pragmatic systems that balance risk, observability, and rapid iteration. He’s led security and engineering functions (including CISO responsibilities) while remaining deeply technical and comfortable “building whatever is needed to win.” Based in the Bay Area, he pairs a scientific background in chemistry with a maker’s instinct—aptly summarized as “bricolage as a service”—and balances work with family, jiu jitsu, and learning traditional instruments.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Organic/Physical Organic Chemistry, M.S. Organic/Physical Organic Chemistry at University of California, BerkeleyA.B. Chemistry, A.B. Chemistry at Duke UniversityTechnician Plus Amateur Radio, Technician Plus Amateur Radio at ARRL
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Github Skills (107)
slack-bot9
trend9
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python-modules8
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vms7
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
paulkarayan/harmonicmixing
Feb 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 1 year 4 months
paulkarayan/projecteuler
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years
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