Paul Mantz
Senior Software Engineer at Workforce.com
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Mantz is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 16 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, APIs, ETL pipelines, and data-driven applications. Based in Chicago, he’s led cross-functional teams through cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and on-prem rewrites—often serving as the client liaison and hands-on developer simultaneously. His career spans health tech, workforce platforms, and manufacturing systems, with repeated successes moving deployments (Heroku→AWS, Jenkins→GitHub Actions) and improving operational throughput. He’s comfortable across Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Node/TypeScript, and scripting languages, and has implemented components in Rust and Python when integration demanded it. A committed mentor and coach, he enjoys teaching teammates to surpass his skills and has a knack for turning legacy systems into maintainable, contract-driven platforms.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lamar UniversityS.B. Computer Science, S.B. Computer Science at University of ChicagoNederland High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
elisp6
ruby-on-rails6
iterm6
emacs6
moose6
perl6
soap6
wsdl6
keyboard-shortcuts6
interaction5
emacs-lisp5
project-management5
json-api4
api4
spacemacs3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pcmantz/dotfiles
May 2010 - Feb 2021
configuration for frequently used pieces of software
Contributions:122 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 10 years 11 months
configurationconfiguration-managementconfigdotfilespieces
pcmantz/elisp
Jun 2010 - Jul 2022
Contributions:255 commits, 106 pushes, 2 branches in 12 years 2 months
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