Paul Roub - Staff Software Engineer

Career Profile

• Managed multiple projects, simultaneously, within budgets and deadlines.
• Proven experience coordinating product, design and technical concerns to drive and prioritize value delivery.
• Internal Agile coaching, mentoring and conference talks on Test-Driven Development
• Expertise in lifecycle and planning, design, development, testing, prototyping, and deployment of innovative, reliable, performant mobile and web-based software solutions for large, medium, and small businesses, industries, and government entities.
• Equally at home building green-field projects or absorbing, updating, and improving large existing codebases.
• Proven success remotely and on-site as team leader, team member, and sole software developer.

Value Offered

• Front and Back End Development
• Mobile and Web-Focused Software Development
• Responsive and Resilient Front End Web Development
• Product Development
• Project Management
• Marketing / Sales Support / Consulting
• Relationship Building / Customer Satisfaction
• Programming / Scripting / Code Analysis
• Documentation / Technical Writing
• Troubleshooting / Problem Solving
• Training / Team Leading / Mentoring

Relevant Professional Experience

Journey Live - Senior Software Engineer

Developed tooling that reduced the time needed to support new clients, languages and countries from weeks to hours; and removed the need for developer involvement in the content-localization process.

• Designed, implemented, documented internationalization infrastructure for the full stack of Journey’s applications (React and Node front and back end, web and mobile).
• Designed and implemented flexible, data-driven feature configuration, allowing Operations to tailor features offered to any combination of client, country and language without engineering intervention.
• Leveled up internal documentation and tutorials.
• General focus on removing friction for developers and operations.
• Internal infrastructure improvements and agile coaching (championing Test-Driven Development and iterative MVP approach to new work)

Honor / Home Instead - Senior Software Engineer

Created Home Instead’s first application used by care providers in the home, allowing 24-hour peer-to-peer communication and removing the need for admins as go-betweens. This allowed additional caregivers to be added while reducing the need for admin time; previously the admin overhead was the primary bottleneck to adding care capacity.

• Developed with Node, Python/Flask, AWS messaging and workflows, RabbitMQ, Azure functions, C#, server- and client-side JavaScript, Typescript, React.
• Proselytized and exemplified Agile software practices throughout the organizations, including mentoring junior team members.
• Focused on continuous improvement, quality-of-life issues and performance — whether user-facing, or eliminating roadblocks in the software development/delivery process itself.
• All work is fully remote, including remote pair programming, demos, and knowledge sharing.
• Curated a “Team Learning” feed of useful technical or practice articles/videos/talks shared by team members (available on request).

SourceGear - Senior Software Engineer / Product Manager

Functioned both as a developer, and as the “proxy” to our software-developer customers.

• Participated on team of 4 in development of software, saving clients thousands of man hours by creating mobile and online tools and libraries for synchronizing data and resolving conflicts with one line of code using C, C#, and Objective C.
• Designed and developed software, including Veracity distributed version control and bug tracking and Zumero data synchronization.

Harris Corporation - Senior Software Engineer

Worked with vendors, internal teams and stakeholders to speed up and stabilize data interchange, eliminate redundant or misaligned terminology and categories. Automated away thousands of annual hours of manual checkups and intervention.

• Created software systems working with outside vendors; delivering on-time solutions to internal customers, improving interdepartmental operations and enhancing existing software using Microsoft BizTalk and custom software development in C#.
• Led Microsoft BizTalk integration on system adoption; modernizing and centralizing major purchasing component, improving inventory tracking and management.

Meridian Partners, LLC - Chief Technology Officer

Served as founding technical partner of this custom Ecommerce software solutions company.

• Consulted with customers to design, plan, and scope solutions, ensuring 100% satisfaction.
• Built multiple online marketplaces for nutrition and medicine sales, with extension rule-backed engines to tailor selections and restrict sales of items on case-by-case basis.
• Developed bridging software between new and legacy water-flow management and tracking systems for South Florida Water Management District.

Data Net - Senior Software Engineer

Built, maintained, and debugged warehouse tracking software running on multiple embedded and desktop systems.

Breakaway Solutions - Regional Chief Technology Officer

Managed team of 20+ developers on multiple Ecommerce consulting projects, overseeing budget, technical needs and training, team structure and technical sales support.

• Acted as technical team leader on projects; writing and reviewing code, managing communications, and training client development teams.
• Developed and presented training programs to developers in multiple regions.

Technologies

Platforms

.NET, Xamarin, Azure, AWS, NodeJS/Express, iOS, Android, React, Ionic, Rails

Servers

SQL, MySQL, Flask

Languages

Python, Ruby, C#, C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Java, JavaScript, CSS / SASS / LESS, PHP, HTML, Perl

Automation

Azure Functions, Github Actions

Conference Presentations

• Codemash, 2020 - “Test-Driven Development: Save Your Time, Save Your Sanity, and Write Great Code Fast” (video at roub.net/pres/codemash2020)
• Momentum Developer Conference, 2021
• Orlando CodeCamp, 2023