Paul Souders
Senior Software Engineer at Scrubjay
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Souders is a senior software engineer and multi-disciplinary product designer with 12 years of focused experience building mission-driven digital products from architecture to UX. He currently guides development and architecture for TolaData at Mercy Corps while running Scrubjay, a one-person digital workshop that delivers end-to-end experiences for socially-responsible organizations. His background blends hands-on coding, design leadership, and product management—evident in leading a multi-language platform redesign at MicroMentor and long-term stewardship of Mercy Corps’ public web presence. Paul’s career arc, which includes earlier field archaeology and museum work, gives him a rare systems-level perspective on research, documentation, and user-centered strategy. He favors pragmatic, humble learning and brings a generalist’s curiosity to solve complex problems for impact-focused teams.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Anthropology, MS, Anthropology at University of OregonBA, Anthropology, BA, Anthropology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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drupal
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Github Skills (25)
prototyping10
data-services9
responsive9
sass-framework9
drupal9
css9
prototypes9
web-development8
frontend8
javascript8
visualization7
html6
backgrounds6
php6
visualizations6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
axoplasm/axoplasm
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:136 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 3 months
axoplasm/Moby-Dick
Jul 2013 - Dec 2020
Contributions:152 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 6 months
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