Paula Muldoon
Lead Software Engineer at Cambridge Philharmonic Society
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaula Muldoon is a Lead Software Engineer at Zopa with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems in Kotlin and Python, focusing on test automation, CI/CD, and safe frequent production releases. She combines technical leadership of cross-functional teams with hands-on work on Kafka, Kubernetes, Ktor and document automation at BRYTER, and has shipped features for secured auto loan products in production. A classically trained violinist who has performed at Abbey Road and the BBC Proms, Paula uniquely blends high-performance collaboration from orchestral leadership into software team culture and hiring. She founded MusiCoders to help professional musicians transition into tech, and regularly speaks and runs workshops on developer practices and career change. Awarded in multiple women-in-tech lists, she practices mindfulness and advocates for mental health as part of creating sustainable engineering teams. Based in Cambridge, she pairs musical discipline with pragmatic engineering to turn complex user needs into reliable, user-focused systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Violin, Certificate, Violin at New England Conservatory of MusicB.M., Violin Performance, Highest Honors, B.M., Violin Performance, Highest Honors at University of MichiganComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Makers AcademyMaster of Music, Violin, Distinction, Master of Music, Violin, Distinction at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
voice10
rebuild9
explore9
twilio9
voice-assistant9
apache-poi9
cs509
react8
multimodal8
fmi8
java8
twitter8
instagram7
react-native7
nodejs7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HollyJM81/orchestra_library
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Orchestral library database
Contributions:7 reviews, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 3 months
library-databasedatabase
FiddlersCode/leopold
Dec 2019 - May 2020
A virtual agent for my violin playing!
Contributions:57 PRs, 102 pushes, 40 branches in 4 months
playingagentvirtual-agentviolin
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