Paul Ramirez
Chief Executive Officer at Freire Schools
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolPaul Ramirez is an education executive and former school founder with six years in district and network leadership and over a decade of classroom experience driving dramatic student growth. As CEO of Freire Schools and previously Chief Leadership Officer, he has led operations, HR, talent recruitment, IT, and principal supervision across a multi-state charter network serving 2,000+ students. He founded Freire Charter School Wilmington, growing it to 480 students and earning state recognition and multiple leadership awards for rapid academic gains. Paul combines hands-on instructional coaching and curriculum design with strategic technology and digital learning experience—having led the district’s shift to hybrid/virtual learning during COVID and chaired its Technology Steering Committee. He also contributes as a full-stack developer on open-source tooling for API testing, improving WebSocket and GraphQL integrations, a detail that reveals a rare blend of instructional leadership and technical fluency. A Yale literature graduate with an M.Ed. in secondary teaching, he is known for turning ambitious instructional visions into measurable results.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Literature, Bachelor's Degree, Literature at Yale UniversityMaster's Degree, Secondary Teaching, Master's Degree, Secondary Teaching at Wilmington University
English, French
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
websocket10
wpgraphql10
websockets-client10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
react10
testing9
webpacker8
webpack8
language-agnostic6
algorithm6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the WebSocket functionality within the Swell API development tool. Their contributions included adding test content, implementing test snippets, integrating open connection functionality, and fixing workspace and export log positioning issues related to WebSockets. They also worked on integrating the GraphQL plugin by removing dependencies and adding necessary webpack configurations, which suggests a focus on improving the tool's API testing capabilities.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
oslabs-beta/Swell
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, and gRPC.
Contributions:8 reviews, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
apieventswebsocketstechnologiesgrpc
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