Summary
Paul Wardrip is a versatile full-stack software engineer and longtime freelancer based in Atlanta with over a decade of professional experience and two decades of hands-on practice across startups, agencies, Fortune 500s and government. He designs and ships pragmatic, well-documented systems spanning rich front-end UIs, REST and microservice backends, mobile clients, and DevOps automation, with particular strength in troubleshooting, reverse engineering and performance tuning. Past engagements include building high-performance video and search interfaces at Turner, data-heavy financial visualizations with D3 and Angular, and security-focused internal tools for the CDC. Comfortable across JavaScript, Java/Spring, SQL and cloud/serverless platforms, he favors simple, reusable modules and human-readable code that accelerate maintenance and onboarding. As a freelancer he combines deep technical breadth with a knack for translating legacy constraints into modern, testable solutions—often reducing deployment pain points and dramatically improving system responsiveness.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer