Paul Tiplady
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPaul Tiplady is a software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building backend and infrastructure systems, currently contributing at Meta from the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded FinTech startup Qwil, built its initial product and scaling architecture, and grew the engineering organization through Series B as CTO. His expertise spans payments and financial APIs, network engineering, cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes, and cross-functional disciplines including Product, Security, SRE, and Compliance. Known for pragmatic, collaborative problem-solving, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic product refinement alongside business stakeholders. Dual US–UK citizenship and a Computational Physics degree from the University of Edinburgh underscore a quantitative, systems-oriented approach to engineering leadership. A founder’s mindset and deep infrastructure background make him adept at turning complex, regulated requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computational Physics, BSc (Hons), Computational Physics at The University of Edinburgh
English
Github Skills (132)
rest-framework10
scheduling10
nested-resources10
mesos10
ecosystem10
routers10
django-rest10
golang10
kubernetes10
go10
security-policy10
docker10
kubernetes-monitoring10
felix9
django9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Symmetric/kubernetes
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 13 branches in 10 months
containerscontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
Symmetric/calico-kubernetes
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
calicokubernetes-networkingkubernetesnetworking
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