Summary
Paul Long is an experienced escalation engineer and product-minded developer with nine years of recent professional experience and a long history at Microsoft building and troubleshooting networking and kernel-level systems. He combines deep hands-on debugging expertise—from legacy UNIX and early modem-era tinkering to modern Windows networking—with product management and developer evangelism, having designed tools like Microsoft Network Monitor and shipped mobile apps through his studio. Based in Charlotte, NC, Paul runs a recording studio business where he applies systems thinking to both audio engineering and software product design, an unusual crossover that informs his pragmatic approach to building reliable tools. Known for tackling the most critical customer issues, he brings a blend of technical rigor, user-focused prioritization, and creative problem solving to new software development challenges.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University