Paul Scheid
Engineering Manager at Loop
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Scheid is an engineering manager with a decade of experience building low-latency trading systems and logistics automation, currently leading teams at Loop after driving consolidation and routing improvements at Flexport that reduced truck usage by 30%. He combines rigorous academic training—a BS/MS in Computer Science and Engineering with Economics from Washington University—with hands-on systems work from FPGA market data to production-grade web and mobile automation. Paul has deep expertise in performance-sensitive architecture and data-driven decision systems, having profiled and cut microsecond latencies in trading and integrated data science engines for operational planning. He also contributes to civic open-source projects like CiviWiki, where he’s focused on backend refactors and maintainability, reflecting an interest in civic tech alongside commercial impact. Based in Ann Arbor, he’s known for translating research-grade ideas (e.g., cache-aware optimizations) into measurable product gains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Marquette University High SchoolBachelor's and Master's of Science Computer Science Engineering and Economics, Bachelor's and Master's of Science Computer Science Engineering and Economics at Washington University in St. Louis
Spanish
Github Skills (10)
python10
django10
api-design9
integrations9
refactoring9
api9
engage7
democracy7
django-rest6
django-rest-framework6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CiviWiki/OpenCiviWiki
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021
Building a Better Democracy for the Internet Age
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and improving the project's code, particularly related to relative import statements. They updated the code to use explicit imports and made changes to several models and API files. Furthermore, the user merged branches, indicating involvement in the project's development cycle. They also removed references to a disabled API.
participatory-democracypythonvolunteerscivic-engagementcivic-tech
pscheid2/detox-expo-example
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Basic detox test setup for expo demo project
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
detoxdemo-project
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