Paul Santa Clara
Principal Engineer at Roblox
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Santa Clara is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient backend systems and leading engineering teams, currently shaping infrastructure and platform efforts at Roblox from Philadelphia. He has deep data engineering and integrations expertise demonstrated by sustained contributions to the widely used singer-python project—adding stream aliasing, bookmarking standards, and improved datetime handling to enhance interoperability and reliability. Previously he held senior engineering and management roles at Talend and Stitch, blending hands-on software craftsmanship with people and product leadership. Paul is comfortable operating at the intersection of open-source ecosystems and large-scale production environments, often focusing on maintainability and pragmatic API improvements that reduce operational friction.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
etl10
python10
data-engineering10
back-end-development9
lib9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
singer-io/singer-python
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Writes the Singer format from Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 14 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `singer-python` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. They added features like stream aliases to `write_record` and `write_schema` functions. Furthermore, the user implemented a bookmarking standard and also improved the datetime handling. In addition, they made changes to the dependencies and version of the project.
nlppythonsinger
psantacl/emacs
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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