Summary
Paul Smith is a founder and principal engineer with 12 years of professional software experience leading .NET and Microsoft-stack projects from concept to rescue in the Greater Chicago Area. As CEO of Funcular Labs he assembles small, skilled teams to deliver architecture, development, project management, and training at competitive rates, often tackling multi-tenant and large-data challenges he first encountered at Allscripts. His background spans startups to enterprise (including building large-scale ad platforms at Inadco and modernization work at CSC and Zurich), blending hands-on architecture with client-facing leadership. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he repeatedly converts distressed or stalled initiatives into production systems and has moved fluidly between C-suite IT roles and deep engineering work. An early adopter of mixed stacks, he pairs Microsoft expertise with lessons from Hadoop/HBase and Java migrations, making him effective at both greenfield builds and complex platform transformations.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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