Paul Traylor
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at LINE Corp
Fukuoka, Japan
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Top SchoolPaul Traylor is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Fukuoka with 16 years building backend systems, developer tooling, and operations automation. He architected Promgen, a managed Prometheus/Thanos solution monitoring over 80,000 targets and 150 million time series, and has deep experience turning open-source tech into on-prem developer services. Paul prioritizes clean, well-documented server-side code and simple interfaces that let teams focus on their strengths, and he has led cross-team automation and release engineering efforts across startups and larger orgs. Comfortable presenting in English or Japanese, he combines hands-on production reliability work with a developer-first mindset and a talent for workflow design. As a hobbyist he’s learning Rust and Swift to build small, pragmatic CLI and productivity tools, and he contributes practical plugins to popular projects like xbar. Paul holds Japanese permanent residency and is seeking opportunities near Fukuoka or remote, not relocating.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityJapanese Language, Japanese Language at Fukuoka YMCA TenjinContinuing Education, Japanese, Continuing Education, Japanese at Soko Gakuen (San Francisco)
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
xmobar10
python10
x10
plugin9
bitbar9
urllib8
api8
apim8
documentation7
datetime6
swift6
macos6
sqlite6
ruby6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
matryer/xbar-plugins
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Plugin repository for xbar (the BitBar reboot)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to Python-based plugins for xbar (formerly BitBar) by adding metadata to the plugin files. They also focused on improving existing plugins, particularly the RescueTime plugin, by updating the code to use standard `urllib` packages, improving documentation, and fixing labels to match the official RescueTime API. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the taskwarrior plugin to filter out extraneous annotations.
xbarpluginbitbarpluginsplugin-repository
kfdm/alfred-worklog
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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