Paul Michalek
Security Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Michalek is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems and security controls for enterprise environments. Currently on Target’s Network Threat Protection team, he blends hands-on development in Go, Python, Node.js and React with security tooling like ElasticSearch, Kafka and container ecosystems to defend large-scale networks. His background spans pricing systems that impacted billions in merchandise, CI/CD and GraphQL production services, as well as earlier full-stack SaaS and web consulting work. A former Army intelligence sergeant, he brings operational tradecraft and disciplined analytic thinking to threat modeling and vulnerability assessment. Paul pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with a lifelong curiosity about progressive web apps, reactive streams and component-based front ends, often leading mentorship and process improvements across distributed teams. He’s as comfortable iterating on UI and microservices as he is architecting observability and detection pipelines that scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Github contributions (5)
sushantdhakal/Tweedledee
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 25 days
psmichalek/sync-bee
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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