Paul Schooss
Engineering Manager at Splash (SplashThat.com)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Schooss is an experienced engineering manager based in New York with 11 years building and operating large-scale infrastructure and backend systems. He progressed from hands-on DevOps and SRE roles at Livefyre, Klout, and Uber to Technical and leadership positions at Splash, combining deep operational know-how with people management. Paul has practical distributed-systems experience—his open-source work on the popular m3db project focused on Docker-based integration testing and Prometheus remote storage integration, reflecting strong observability and testing instincts. He excels at turning complex production requirements into repeatable automation and robust test suites, while coaching teams to adopt reliable deployment practices. Known for bridging the gap between engineering and operations, he brings a pragmatic, test-first approach to reliability and scalability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (17)
docker10
scripting10
dockers10
script10
sh10
shell10
go9
prometheus9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
metric7
aggregator7
testing7
cicd7
query-engine6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
May 2018 - Jan 2020
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 46 PRs, 130 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul's primary focus was on integrating and testing the M3DB project within a Docker environment. They implemented and refined integration tests using shell scripts, focusing on setting up, running, and testing the core functionality of M3DB nodes. These tests encompassed adding namespaces, placement initialization, data writes, and reads, along with cleanup procedures. They also worked on configurations for remote storage integration via Prometheus and made changes to backend configurations.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
nerd0/my-debian-jessie-setup
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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