Paul Whalen
Senior Staff Software Engineer at PEAK6
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Whalen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Chicago with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and data-driven web applications. At PEAK6 he has progressed from Software Engineer to senior technical leadership, focusing on dependable, scalable services. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to a Pythonic Gmail interface, demonstrating hands-on expertise in message handling, API integration, and bug-driven reliability improvements. Paul pairs a CS degree with formal music training in jazz piano, an uncommon blend that hints at discipline, pattern recognition, and creative problem solving. Early work includes data-visualization and clustering prototypes for privacy research as well as MongoDB-backed caching for high-frequency financial data, showing experience across analytics, storage, and performance-sensitive domains.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (9)
message-bus10
message-handler10
messaging10
python10
imap10
messagebox10
gmail-api10
message-system10
data-retrieval10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
charlierguo/gmail
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
A Pythonic interface for Google Mail
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Gmail interface. They implemented features such as fetching sent mail, fetching multiple messages, and retrieving thread messages. The user also addressed bugs related to message fetching and improved the overall functionality of the Gmail interface by refining the message handling and data retrieval mechanisms. These changes improved the application's reliability and the scope of supported Gmail features.
google-apimailpythonemailgmail
pgwhalen/stubhub
Dec 2014 - Aug 2019
Tracking ticket prices over time using StubHub API
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
apiticket-trackingtrackingprices
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