Paul Paradise is a production engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and operating resilient, scalable systems across startups and large tech companies. He currently manages production engineering at Meta, bringing hands-on SRE and DevOps experience developed over a long tenure at Socrata and early engineering roles at Microsoft. Paul favors pragmatic Agile practices and small, focused teams, balancing simple, maintainable solutions with long-term technical health. He pairs operational rigor—FISMA compliance and security work—with developer enablement, removing obstacles so engineers can ship. Raised in a family business and still helping his parents with IT, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with enterprise-grade discipline. Based in Seattle, he excels at coaching teams through fast growth while keeping production reliability front and center.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
La Jolla Country Day School
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
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Paul Paradise - Production Engineering Manager at Meta