Paul Langton
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Langton is a software engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently building GraphQL infrastructure at Figma. He has architected and optimized high-throughput event pipelines and sharded MySQL backends that handled billions of events per day and scaled Klaviyo through peak holiday traffic. Comfortable across Python, Go, Java and production orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Flink), Paul blends a mathematics background with practical incident leadership and on-call experience. His work spans cloud networking, storage systems, and open-source contributions to Kubernetes, and he brings an explicit, values-driven filter for the kinds of organizations he partners with. A curious problem-solver, he also has research and teaching roots—from formal methods and cryptography experiments to mentoring in theory of computation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0 at Northeastern UniversityAdvanced Math and Science Academy Charter School
Github Skills (67)
testing10
scheduling10
infrastructure10
kubernetes10
typescript10
go10
docker10
mesos9
kubernetes-monitoring9
sql8
qt8
python8
gtk8
scala8
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulangton/paulangton.github.io
Dec 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
paulangton/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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