Paul Pfeffer
Principal Software Engineer at DNAnexus
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Pfeffer is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and automation for telecommunications and connectivity products, currently leading platform work at DNAnexus. He is fluent in Python and Go, comfortable across Linux, TCP/IP networking, CI/CD and cloud tooling, and has a track record of reducing operational costs and accelerating deployment through pragmatic reengineering. His background includes designing SaaS eSIM platforms, RESTful APIs, blockchain-backed services, and OpenWRT integrations—skills that bridge embedded networking and cloud services. Paul has repeatedly delivered automation frameworks and test suites for complex voice and roaming systems, showing an aptitude for turning protocol-heavy requirements into maintainable tooling. Based in Oakland, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and teaching experience, and often surfaces non-obvious wins by optimizing infrastructure and asynchronous workflows to dramatically cut setup and run-time costs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Sonoma State University
English, French
Github Skills (7)
keyboard-shortcuts9
command-line-interface8
aws-cli8
chrome-extension8
aws8
amazon-web-services7
evernote5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RealP/Everpy
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
RealP/realp.github.io
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
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