# Charlie P. > Software Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/charliep ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Applause Jan 2024 – Present ### Director of Engineering, Coaching Experiences @ Pluralsight Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineer @ Pluralsight Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer @ Cast & Crew Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Burbank, CA Support the Cast&Crew Start+ product as a Front-End Engineer. Start+ is an employee onboarding web application that allows production studios to quickly fulfill their hiring needs and provides them with the visibility needed along the way with easy-to-use dashboards. My responsibilities are to help lead, develop, and support this product on the front-end part of the technology stack. I work cross-functionally across Cast&Crew to implement new features and promote high quality engineering practices. • Rewrote the entire front-end UI experience, using React, Redux Saga, and Apollo/GraphQL, to be a modern, single page application, incorporating Universal Javascript design patterns to improve our user experience. • Migrated API requests from REST to GraphQL (Apollo), enabling more concise response payloads and reducing network traffic. • Promoted high quality engineering practices and significantly reduced production bugs by implementing integration and unit testing using Cypress and Jest, respectively, and improved application monitoring. • Continue to drive Start+ front-end development and promote a services oriented architecture. ### Front End Developer @ Next Generation Esports (NGE) Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Burbank, CA Lead architectural design for NGE Interactive's web application on all levels of the technology stack as a Full Stack Engineer. Responsible for working cross-functionally across multiple teams to implement features and UX/UI design. • Created a new web application based on NGE intellectual property, built with React, Node.js, and MySQL • Successfully implemented strategic partner's APIs to handle high volume time-sensitive financial transactions • Implemented Redis Pub/Sub to handle session data and keep all connected clients updated with the latest data • Collaborated with the UX/UI Designer to design a modern and intuitive front-end UI experience packaged in a custom UI library • Incorporated best practice Javascript design patterns and drove a micro-services oriented architecture ### Project Manager @ EMC Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 • Managed the deployment of enterprise storage and network appliances for mission critical applications to support customers’ immediate IT infrastructure requirements • Responsible for delivering projects against the agreed scope, budget, and schedule, while directing multi-discipline resources and maintaining cross-functional relationships • Developed workbooks and dashboards to analyze, forecast, manage and deliver a financial portfolio of $15M+ annually in professional services ### Technology Solutions/Professional Services Delivery Intern @ EMC Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Irvine • Collaborated with engineers to create a requirements tool resulting in reduced hardware implementation delays • Created python scripts to generate timecard and expense data enabling accurate revenue forecasts ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics UC Irvine Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charlie-paisan --- Source: https://flows.cv/charliep JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/charliep/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22