Paul Lessing
Head Of Engineering at Zigzag Dog Training | B Corp
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Lessing is a Head of Engineering based in London with 11 years’ experience building and leading full-stack teams across scale-sensitive domains. He combines a strong algorithmic and systems-design foundation from an Oxford MMathCompSci with hands-on expertise in TypeScript frontends and backends in Node.js, PHP and Java. Paul has led teams through large-scale architecture work—designing systems to handle hundreds of millions of simultaneous connections—and coaches engineers from junior to senior levels to raise coding standards. His background spans startups and enterprise contexts (Just Eat, SamKnows, Cisco ThousandEyes) and includes driving migrations such as JavaScript-to-TypeScript at FOODit. Comfortable toggling between product-facing decisions and deep technical design, he brings both product empathy and rigorous engineering discipline. A pragmatic problem solver, he often blends algorithmic thinking with frontend polish to deliver scalable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at The German School, LondonMaster of Mathematics and Computer Science (MMathCompSci), Master of Mathematics and Computer Science (MMathCompSci) at University of Oxford
German, French, English, british sign language, Polish
Github Skills (126)
azure-functions10
typescript-definitions10
markdown10
javascript10
cli10
angular10
mobx10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
dts10
slack10
serverless-framework10
nodejs10
packed10
docker10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paullessing/paullessing.com
Apr 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
paullessing/dnd-character-sheet2
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 88 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
reactjavascriptsheetcharactercharacter-sheet
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