Paul Swartz
Chief Technology Officer at TransitOPS
Natick, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Swartz is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems for public transit and consumer services. As Deputy CIO at the MBTA and CTO of TransitOPS, he merges hands-on architecture and engineering leadership to modernize APIs, improve realtime and static data pipelines, and deliver accessible rider-facing web experiences. He has led teams of 35+, coached engineers, and driven cost, performance, and maintainability improvements while supporting mission-critical operations. An active open-source contributor, Paul has improved core Python tooling such as mongoengine—adding robust datetime parsing and dereferencing fixes—underscoring his attention to correctness and testing. He holds a BA in Computer Science and English from Hampshire College and brings a public-interest focus that shapes pragmatic, user-centered technology decisions.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science and English, BA Computer Science and English at Hampshire College
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Github Skills (7)
orm10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
testing10
python-dateutil9
pymongo8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
MongoEngine/mongoengine
Mar 2013 - May 2013
A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the mongoengine library. They made several code changes to ensure the correct behavior when dereferencing documents and complex fields. Furthermore, the user enhanced the library by implementing datetime parsing using `dateutil` when available, and added comprehensive testing.
mongodb-ormpythonmongodocument-mapperpython3
pculture/djvideo
Aug 2009 - May 2012
Contributions:55 commits in 2 years 9 months
templatetagpythondjangovideosembed-videos
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