Paul Mcdonald
Software Engineer
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolPaul Mcdonald is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over two decades of product and infrastructure experience, currently known for heading Location Infrastructure at Facebook where he built services enabling geospatial and location-aware features across apps. He grew and led large engineering organizations (80–100 engineers) and earlier co-founded and scaled Facebook’s Identity/Profile team from a small prototype group into a mobile-first organization. His background includes deep platform and performance work from Microsoft Office (Ribbon and Office Web Apps) to front-end and distributed systems at Facebook, giving him a rare mix of product intuition and low-level optimization skills. Based in Greater Boston, he has repeatedly hired and mentored engineers and managers, co-led site growth, and driven cross-functional launches at scale. An unexpected thread through his career is the mechanical-to-software mindset hinted in his GitHub bio—reflecting pragmatism and engineering craftsmanship applied from UI polish to complex backend pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Harvard UniversityGithub contributions (5)
sirpaulmcd/Onion-Trail-Open
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
sirpaulmcd/sirpaulmcd
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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