Paul A. Jungwirth

• Listen to the customer, clarify their wishes, and discover hidden requirements.
• Lead software teams (so far, 0 to 6 other developers).
• Coordinate IT, creative staff, programmers, and management across multiple companies.
• Write clear specifications and proposals, whether brief (1 page) or elaborate (200 pages).
• Accurately estimate projects (so far, up to $250,000 over 3 months for 3 developers).
• Architect cloud-based solutions for scalability and high availability.
• Conduct accurate capacity planning to maximize server ROI.
• Implement monitoring and automated configuration/deployment for high uptime and easy maintenance.
• Juggle competing priorities.
• Work productively with little supervision.
• Manage customer expectations.
• Argue a point and concede cheerfully if a team chooses something else.
• Design intuitive user interfaces.
• Design normalized and efficient database schemas, tune database settings, and fix slow queries.
• Judge when to build for tomorrow and when to build for now, when to abstract and when to code the thing itself.
• Track down difficult bugs with patience and not superstition.
• Package software so it is easy to install and deploy.
• Document the big picture and the hidden assumptions in code.
• Write flexible, penetrating tests to ensure correctness and cover edge cases.
• Choose an appropriate technology/platform for a given problem.
• Find existing libraries to avoid Not Invented Here syndrome.

Open Source Contributor

• Authored: Postgres multiranges, aggs_for_arrays, active_model_serializers_pg, Chef cookbooks, others.
• Contributed to: Postgres, Ruby on Rails, jQuery UI, Chef, Devise, Geocoder, others.
• Reported bugs for: rvm, acts-as-taggable-on, best_in_place, Maven, others.
• StackOverflow contributor with reputation of 21,762 as of 4 March 2022.

President

• Developed rich, highly-scalable web & mobile applications for startups and online businesses.
• Took over and rescued several off-track projects by excellent client service.
• Built reputation for responsiveness, good listening, honesty, and concern for the client's best interests.
• Led distributed development teams to increase productivity and lower costs.

Founder & CTO

• Led product design and development for a web application to help voters find the best candidates.
• Designed Machine Learning algorithms to profile thousands of candidates based on millions of data points.
• Designed gamified system to crowd-source data on candidates and political issues.
• Accepted to DreamIt, Wharton Venture Initiation Program, and GoodCompany accelerator programs.
• Helped raise over $100,000 in angel investments.

Software Engineer

• Tech lead on several websites; programmed and directed other developers for up to a dozen at once.
• Responsible for everything from requirements gathering to design to implementation to launch to support.
• Negotiated and coordinated between IT, the customer, and other developers.
• Won more revenue by proposing projects that helped our customers.
• Championed and implemented a continuous build/test cycle.

Technical Services Engineer

• Implemented custom solutions related to a distributed content management application, including business system integration; output to HTML, XML, and print (QuarkXPress); and inventory/pricing integration.
• Solved customer issues.
• Contributed bugfixes to core application code.
• Helped hire an excellent employee.

Technical Editor

• Saved over $50,000 by proposing and implementing various automations.

Employee #1

• Helped build one of the Mac's first web servers, OneSite.
• Helped build and support BBS extensions to provide Internet gateways for SMTP, FTP, and Gopher.

Greek, Latin, Distributed Computing, Machine Learning, Other Topics

M.A. in Classical Studies

• Robert A. Fox Presidential Prize Fellow.
• Taught four semesters of Latin & Ancient Mythology.

B.A. in English Literature

• Tested out of Intro to Programming.
• Took Data Structures & Algorithms, Programming Languages, Machine Organization.
• Minored in mathematics; gave an extra-curricular talk on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.
• National Merit Scholar; Magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.

Other

• U. S. Security Clearance, DoD 8570 IAT–I
• Network+ Certified, 2021–present
• Eagle Scout, California Boys' State, High School & College Speech & Debate.
• GRE: 800 verbal, 790 math, 5.5 writing, taken October 2007.
• Active member of PDXRuby and Portland tech start-up scene.
• Have given talks on temporal databases, Postgres, ActiveRecord, Node.js, jQuery.