Paul Stickney
Senior Software Engineer at WebMD Health Services
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Stickney is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of professional experience focused on improving correctness and performance of backend systems. He values autonomy and ownership, favoring incremental, tactical changes that support long-term sustainability and evolving requirements. At WebMD Health Services he applies this mindset to production-critical services, drawing on prior contractor roles and a foundation in computer science from Washington State University. An active open-source contributor, Paul has improved performance-critical rendering in the popular Phaser game framework and polished documentation for PixiJS, showing a willingness to tackle both low-level optimizations and developer-facing clarity. His background includes hands-on communications leadership in the US Army, which informs a disciplined, reliability-first approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies, Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies at Clark CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (9)
html10
api-documentation10
javascript10
phaser10
pixijs10
game-development10
documentation10
canvas9
webgl8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phaserjs/phaser
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 23 PRs, 176 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the tilemap and related elements within the Phaser framework. They implemented a "delta scroll rendering" optimization to reduce CPU usage during scrolling, along with various rendering updates and optimizations. Further contributions include fixes to edge cases, improved documentation and code style.
gamehtml5game-frameworkphaserjs2d-game
pixijs/pixijs
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their contributions involved adding, correcting, and updating documentation across various files, including video textures, base textures, and display objects. They addressed inconsistencies in documentation style, standardized array type descriptions, and fixed typos. This work appears to be focused on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the project's API documentation.
gamefastesthtml5glsljavascript
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