Summary

Senior software developer & inventor with over a decade of experience using a problems-first approach. Delivering solutions from zero to one, from concept to viable. Passionate about empowerment, whether for customers, teammates, or stakeholders. History of solving complex technical challenges outside of experience level while navigating around roadblocks by re-calibrating approaches back to core problems.

The years listed below reflect exclusively technical roles that might overlap or be interrupted. For a detailed account of my programming career, please see my blog entries about my journey in growing as a programmer.

https://paul.deabute.com/projects/programming-journey-2.html

Professional Experience

Deabute, NH — Inventor

Eight combined years of start-up efforts: established 2012

DEKA Research and Development, NH — Software Engineer

October 2022 - June 2023
  • Assisted team’s infrastructure as code effort for dept. build system.
  • Improved & updated Static Analysis, monitoring, & build times.
  • Negotiated & set up a backup schedule for cross dept. Disaster Recovery strategy.

Manchester Makerspace, NH — Co-Founder

September 2015 - July 2019
  • Originated key fob access control for the location with a $0 budget.
  • Set up automated Slack reminders for membership and rental plots.
  • Scheduled reports aggregating monitored access into member engagement metrics showing leading success indicators for the org.

Meltwater,  NH — Software Engineer

August 2016 - August 2017
  • Maintained microservice-based email building & delivery systems.
  • Optimized & Debugged database queries for 40k message volume, 5-minute delivery window service level agreements.
  • Two-week sprints where 2-4 stories were typically addressed per individual contributor.