Paul Thordarson
Senior Software Engineer at CollegeVine
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Thordarson is a hands-on senior software engineer with two decades of experience and a 13-year track record in production engineering roles, currently building backend systems at CollegeVine. He specializes in Scala and functional programming, having architected Spark-based analytics, Kafka data-ingest pipelines, and disaster-ready AWS backups during his time at KAYAK. Comfortable bridging engineering, customer success, and sales, Paul focuses on automating tedious workflows and shipping clean, maintainable APIs that improve both developer and end-user experience. His background ranges from startup POS systems to large-scale ad tech and analytics, showing a knack for re-architecting legacy pipelines and refining team practices. Based in Medford, MA, he blends deep technical mentorship with pragmatic product thinking, and often champions developer ergonomics through tooling and coding guidelines.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Japanese, Icelandic
Github Skills (53)
asynchronous10
continuation10
cats-effect10
scala-native10
async10
raii10
object-oriented-programming10
monix10
scala10
effects10
dotty10
functional-programming10
jvm-languages9
sun8
command-line-tool8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kapunga/thor-mud
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
kayak/spjall
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
An Akka based chatbot framework written in Scala
Contributions:15 commits, 38 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 4 months
chatbotscalachatbot-frameworkakka
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