Paul Melnikow
CEO at Metabolize LLC
New York, New York, United States
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Paul Melnikow is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 13+ years of experience building developer tools, APIs, and user-centered applications from ideation to production. As CEO of Metabolize and former principal engineer/product manager at Body Labs, he blends hands-on engineering (C, Objective‑C, Node, Python, TypeScript) with product ownership and systems thinking to tackle multi‑sided platforms and complex integrations. He thrives on uniting the big picture with careful detail—improving code quality, testing, and UX across open-source projects like nock, danger-js, AFNetworking, and DefinitelyTyped. A pragmatic coach and team builder, he treats helping teams be awesome as an end in itself and prioritizes technology as a means to deliver real outcomes. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of scientific-software experience, enterprise IT leadership, and deep open-source contributions that improve developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B. Computer Science, Sc.B. Computer Science at Brown UniversityBusiness Administration, Business Administration at Oakland UniversityProduct Management, Product Management at Product School
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Github Skills (89)
python10
testing10
typescript-definitions10
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charting10
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recharts10
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pybind1110
backend10
cheerio10
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
nock/nock
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 516 commits, 442 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily improved the error messages and code quality within the library, `nock/nock`, as well as the tests. They refactored existing tests using Mocha and Chai for better organization and maintainability. They also addressed specific issues related to the test suite, including fixing failing tests and enhancing assertions within the testing framework, improving the overall robustness and quality of the testing.
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badges/shields
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 745 commits, 1833 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the GitHub repository by adding new functionalities to the GitHub commit statistics integration. Their work involved adding new endpoints to integrate with the GitHub API, including the display of issue and pull request details and check states. The code changes included the addition of new badges to show GitHub issues and pull requests, including new features for filtering and displaying the state, title, and number of comments.
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