Paul Sanwald
VP Of Engineering at Siro
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Sanwald is a seasoned engineering executive with 14 years in senior leadership and over two decades of hands-on software experience, currently serving as VP of Engineering in New York. He has led large engineering organizations at Elastic—driving both Elasticsearch and Cloud initiatives—and held senior technical roles across fintech, analytics, and startups including Goldman Sachs, Red Owl Analytics, and Orum.io. Paul blends deep backend expertise (notably contributing code to the high-profile open-source Elasticsearch project to improve date histogram aggregation behavior) with a track record of scaling teams and systems in production. Pragmatic and technically curious, he moves fluidly between architecture, delivery, and low-level code fixes, favoring measurable improvements that reduce risk and operational complexity.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (21)
search-engine10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
web-application9
junit9
jetty9
versioning9
jks6
macos6
vi6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 77 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `AutoDateHistogramAggregationBuilder` in the Elasticsearch search engine. They implemented a feature to set a minimum interval for date histograms, modifying the aggregation logic and the code related to date-time unit processing. Furthermore, the user made versioning adjustments and merged changes from the master branch. A bug fix was also implemented, addressing an issue in bucket calculation during merge operations.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
pcsanwald/elasticsearch
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:116 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 10 months
restfulsynonymssearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearch
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