Summary
Paul Smith is a Technical Architect and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience designing distributed, data-driven systems and leading cross-functional teams in healthcare, manufacturing, and fintech. He is proficient in TypeScript, Node.js, React, cloud architecture, and has driven reliability and automation work—building microservices, private NPM packages, and infrastructure as code to support systems handling millions of events per hour. Paul has a proven track record of reducing operational risk through DevOps improvements, feature-flagged rollouts, and observability tooling, and he’s guided product delivery that directly saved customer relationships. As an instructor and mentor, he modernized curricula and trained junior developers into hireable full-stack engineers, demonstrating a talent for translating complex technical problems into teachable practices. Based in Missouri, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture-level thinking and a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
Associate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Metropolitan Community College-Longview
English, German