Paul Thurlow
Principle Engineer at TDM Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Thurlow is a principal engineer with 14 years building and leading frontend teams for high‑traffic web products, currently applying his scalability and performance expertise at TDM Inc. He has driven frontend architecture and delivery at Mode—rising from senior engineer to Director of Frontend Engineering—and held senior roles at ThoughtSpot, Microsoft, Yammer, and Yahoo, shaping experiences used by millions. Skilled across JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Java, C++, PHP and web standards, he blends hands‑on implementation with product-minded leadership to maintain compatibility and responsiveness at scale. Based in San Francisco and trained as an electrical and computer engineer at Carnegie Mellon, he has a track record of troubleshooting thorny performance issues and shipping high‑quality user experiences across large distributed systems. An uncommon strength is his repeated shift between individual contributor excellence and managing cross‑functional teams, making him effective both coding and coordinating at scale.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
php, javascript, ruby, c
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Github Skills (44)
ajax9
cloud99
ace9
hosting9
oms9
grid8
excel8
javascript8
trie8
data-management7
grids7
spreadsheet7
data-structure7
data-storage7
html6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mode/snowflake
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Medium's engineering growth visualization tool
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
engineeringmediumgrowth-engineeringvisualization
pthurlow/triejs
Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
Javascript trie data structure with customizable data storage layer
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
trie-data-structuretriejavascriptdata-storagecustomizable
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