Paul Kohler
Senior Security Engineer at GitHub
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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RockstarPaul Kohler is a Senior Security Engineer with six years of experience building resilient, observable systems for large-scale platforms, most recently moving from Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Shopify to a security-focused role at GitHub. He combines hands-on SRE and data engineering practice—incident response, tooling, GCP and Terraform—with a track record of improving platform performance and data quality through automation and CI/CD. Paul’s background spans customer-facing reliability, quality engineering leadership, and technical support, giving him a rare perspective on both enterprise customer needs and internal operational excellence. Based in Victoria, BC, he is particularly skilled at turning incident playbooks and monitoring signals into durable process and tooling improvements that reduce toil. An early-career penchant for scripting and automation (e.g., a Python helpdesk tool) highlights a consistent pattern: pragmatic engineering that scales.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (7)
monkey9
github-issues7
ruby7
rails6
github6
resiliency3
circuit-breaker3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pakohler/jiggler
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
pakohler/advent_of_code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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