Paul Nelson
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Nelson is a seasoned software leader with over 15 years of experience (6+ years in senior management roles) designing and delivering cloud-native systems, DevOps practices, and Agile transformations for enterprise clients. Based in Grapevine, Texas, he has led teams at Rackspace and ThoughtWorks to build award-winning, revenue-generating products and introduced microservices, serverless AWS architectures, CI/CD and ChatOps that enabled teams to ship many times per day. He excels at turning underperforming projects into high-performing teams through pragmatic coaching, close executive collaboration, and customer-centric engineering. Notably, he has co-authored a white paper on distributed agile development for the Square Kilometer Array and repeatedly delivered million-dollar ARR products within months. Paul blends hands-on technical depth across cloud, automation and monitoring with a passion for nature and big, audacious company missions.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma from the School of Music, Music Theory and Composition, Diploma from the School of Music, Music Theory and Composition at Cornerstone College
Github Skills (12)
golang10
talisman10
git10
hook10
pre-push10
secrets10
authorization10
changeset10
react10
husky10
git-hooks10
go9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tw-owen-nelson/talisman
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
By hooking into the pre-push hook provided by Git, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious - such as authorization tokens and private keys.
Contributions:3 PRs, 77 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 2 months
tw-owen-nelson/pretty-smoothie
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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