Paul Walker
Full Stack Engineer at pjwalker.net
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Walker is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building JavaScript-driven products, currently focused on Node.js, React/Redux, data visualization, and applied machine learning. He has led development teams and client implementations at organizations like Datopian, NuCivic, and CivicActions, and maintains a long-running personal dev portfolio at pjwalker.net. Paul contributes to notable open-source projects such as ApostropheCMS, where he improved trash management and deduplication in a full-stack Node.js CMS. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he prefers remote or flexible product-team roles and brings practical leadership from both startups and community ventures. An entrepreneurial background—co-founding and running a community bike shop—underscores his operational grit and customer-focused approach. He’s actively exploring functional languages and paradigms (Elixir, Clojure, Ramda), signaling a continual appetite for deeper abstraction and robust systems design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
back-end-development10
nodejs10
cms9
application-framework9
django9
web-framework9
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
pip6
macos6
codeigniter6
database6
php6
virtualenv6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/apostrophe
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and improving the trash functionality within the Apostrophe CMS framework. Their contributions included moving and refactoring code related to trash prefix fields to the doc-type-manager, and implementing deduplication logic for pages. They also worked on updating and refining the pages module, specifically addressing deduplication and trash management.
cmscms-frameworkfull-featurednode-jsfull-stack
starsinmypockets/dotfiles-2
Feb 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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