Paul Linton
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Uppsala kommun, Uppsala County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Linton is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems across music tech, e-learning, and healthcare. Currently at Shopify, he brings deep expertise in Java, Python, Elasticsearch and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and a track record of improving platform stability and performance. He has led teams and mentored engineers as a tech lead and team coach, driving process changes like Python 2→3 migrations, dependency tooling upgrades, and CI/validation improvements. His background at The Echo Nest and Spotify gives him rare experience tuning search and personalization pipelines at scale, and he has contributed to the pyechonest Python client, improving core library maintainability. Comfortable coordinating cross-functional launches (iOS, Android, Web, Product) and partner integrations, he pairs product-minded thinking with hands-on coding. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he blends strong engineering craft with a focus on team health and practical delivery.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of the Arts, Computer Science and Music, Bachelor of the Arts, Computer Science and Music at Wesleyan UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
api10
lib10
python10
apidoc10
version-control9
git9
github8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
echonest/pyechonest
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Python client for the Echo Nest API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul made several updates to the `pyechonest` Python library, primarily focused on refactoring and improvements. Their commits included removing unnecessary `try/except` blocks, merging master branch changes, updating the `setup.py` file for versioning, and modifying utility functions. These changes suggest the user worked on core library functionality and maintenance, improving the codebase's stability and structure.
apipythonnest-apiechopython-client
plinton/dot-files
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:58 commits, 80 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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