Paul Wells
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Wells is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud and browser technologies, currently focused on Azure Storage at Microsoft. He has a strong background in distributed storage features (encryption scopes, customer-provided keys, blob index tags) and a history of shipping platform-level improvements across Microsoft Edge and game server infrastructure at Amazon. Paul blends front-end nuance—contributions to the WinJS FlipView control addressing IE10/touch behaviors and adding test coverage—with deep backend systems work, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency. Based in Seattle and trained in computer engineering at Queen's University, he gravitates toward projects that require careful correctness, security-minded design, and measurable reliability improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering at Queen's University
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
testing10
css9
html8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
winjs/winjs
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015
A UI toolkit for modern browsers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the UI toolkit by addressing issues related to the `FlipView` control, focusing on improving its behavior and appearance. Their work involved fixing bugs that prevented the navigation bars from appearing in IE10 and modifying pointer events to correctly handle touch interactions. They added tests to cover mouse events and ensure that the FlipView content is correctly centered. Furthermore, they made formatting changes to improve code readability.
user-interfacebrowserdeclarative-uibrowsersjavascript
PaulWells/azure-swagger-specs
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:19 PRs, 23 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
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