# Blesson Paul > Founder of Farmstand App + Staff Software Engineer Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/blesson With over 20 years of work experience, I am a seasoned software engineer with a passion for developing innovative and scalable solutions for complex problems. I have a strong background in Java, distributed systems, and cloud computing, and a master's degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. I am currently a member of technical staff 2 at eBay, where I work on enhancing the security and performance of the company's internal applications and network infrastructure. I am motivated by the mission of creating a more connected and inclusive global marketplace, and I bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the team. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ VGS (Very Good Security) Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Member of Technical Staff 2 @ eBay Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States Rollout of Zero Trust Model in Ebay using Forgerock IDM/ OpenDJ, Single Sign On(SSO) to secure critical internal apps and provide self service onboarding for application roles and its members Worked on Data Model and Sync Jobs to bring data from Corp LDAP, Kubernetes, Jira, Sailpoint and other internal tools using Forgerock IDM Sync Jobs, Java SCIM interfaces to create approval hierarchy for each role types and run regular certification on the data. Development and Rollout of NodeJS SSO libraries for API authentication and authorization using Javascript to easily integrate NodeJS FrontEnd applications with SSO ### Member of Technical Staff @ eBay Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Jose Edge Traffic automation at planet scale and L4/L7 traffic automation for Kubernetes clusters using Envoy, Hardware LB(Netscalar, F5 BigIP), Kubernetes, Spring Boot to automate traffic control plane in Data Centers and multiple pop locations around the world. Worked on the framework to pull the access logs from LBs using Filebeat, Elastic search to monitor the traffic anomalies and vulnerabilities Developed Application lifecycle management system and provisioning system for Ebay using Spring Boot, Java, Openstack, Python which helped in processing Application creation to production deployment in less than 5 min. Development of software based LB for L7 routing(https://github.com/eBay/Neutrino) ### Founder of FarmStand App @ Unknown Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States FarmStands App helps to discover nearest Farmers Stands based on your location. Farm Vendors can publish the location of their FarmStand and share the details of the fresh produce, they are selling. Features for Consumers Discover nearest FarmStand based on your location. Search for the fresh produce. Get details of the fresh produce of each FarmStand Send Messages to the Farm Vendor Features for Sellers Create new FarmStand Upload pictures and details of the fresh produce sold by FarmStand Notify Buyers Link to google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farmstand&hl=en_US&gl=US ### Staff Software Engineer @ YouSendIt Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Development of REST APIs for Aspera integration using Spring, Java to support UDP based file transfer which is at least 2 times faster than regular TCP/IP based transfer. ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | San Jose Development of Dispute Resolution Service using Java, Webspere, Oracle to add support for point of sale claims and payment adjudication. Worked on Marketing Platform using C++, Bloomfilters to deliver Paypal and third party campaigns in Paypal website. ### Product Developer @ BMC Software Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 Development of Handheld device Interface in Windows CE using Visual C++ to deliver alerts from Patrol Enterprise Manager to Handheld device. ### Software Engineer @ Integrated Computing Environments Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 Designed and developed several complex and scalable software solutions. Worked extensively with Linux, Unix, parallel computing, X-Windows, Apache and MySQL ## Education ### MS in Software System Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science University of Kerala ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blessonpaul2023 --- Source: https://flows.cv/blesson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/blesson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12