# Paul Brown

> Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/paulbrown

Backend/Infrastructure engineer based in the NYC area. I'm interested in databases, cloud infra, and computer networking.

See my most recent medium post here: https://medium.com/compass-true-north/postgresql-lessons-we-learned-the-hard-way-663ddf666e4 !

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Compass
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 - 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 2019-2021
• Reduced service errors by 90% through investigation into Istio sidecar memory leaks. This investigation resulted in a fix that impacted every service in the company.
• Designed and implemented redis caching solution that improved P95 latency of agent profile page by 75%
• Identified and resolved PostgreSQL database lock issue, reducing the number of database sev1+2 outages from 3 in 2020 to 0 in 2021. Gave presentation to eng org on findings/recommendations, and published article on Compass engineering blog (see https://medium.com/compass-true-north/postgresql-lessons-we-learned-the-hard-way-663ddf666e4)

𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 - 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 2021-2022
• Managed cross-team project and architected solution to rework our underlying network infra. This change allowed feature teams to host apps from any domain, not just www.compass.com
• Led effort on networking side to deprecate legacy monolith flask app, resulting in more stable and maintainable infra. Cutover was successful, with 0 downtime and no negative latency impact.
• Architected and built a one-way allowlist network bridge between two isolated sections of our infra, working closely with legal and security teams to mitigate legal and security risks.

### Software Engineer @ Careerlist
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York City, NY
- Joined Careerlist as the first software engineer hired by the VP of engineering and played a key role in determining the architecture of the application and mentoring subsequent hires
- Deployed a listhost-like email relay service using AWS SES, SQS, SNS, lambdas, and S3 to queue and process messages sent between our users using their email clients
- Enabled full text search in our application by developing schemas and search queries for an Elasticsearch instance synced to changes in our PostgreSQL database
- Created a generic analytics module which hooks into the APIs of Google Analytics, Amplitude, Facebook Analytics, and Heap to collect and analyze UI interactions
- Used React/Redux to build a generic search page component that uses HOCs to sync search state with a uri query string
- Built a system for creating asynchronous functions in python by passing the data to a Google Cloud task queue/Node.js microservice, making certain server requests perform up to 90% faster
- Built and deployed a greenfield Chrome extension for scraping/parsing html, with an engineer-friendly devOps environment with Webpack/Babel/Typescript for transpilation
- Created complex database migrations with SQL to re-architect our data model as we transitioned from a two-way social media-like marketplace to a one-way recruiting platform

### Freelance Software Developer @ The Lesson Builder, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York
- Worked with LAMP stack to complete various projects for three web properties receiving ~150,000 unique visitors per month, with ~50,000 paying subscribers
- Developed process for engineers to set up local development environment
- Developed git workflows for organization

### Mathematics Teacher @ Success Academy Charter Schools
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Brooklyn, New York
- For three years in a row, over 4/5 of my special education students scored the highest possible score on the state math test.
- My history class was consistently ranked as the top 1 or 2 in the network based on internal assessments.
- Studied nights and weekends while teaching to receive my Masters in Education.

### SEO Specialist @ Balsam Brands
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Used Google Analytics API to built data collection, analysis, and reporting processes for SEO department, used to measure and report performance across our 15 online ecommerce brands
- Managed a 5-person remote SEO team. Trained team on fundamentals of SEO meta-tag creation, page indexation management, link-building outreach, traffic/rank analysis, as well as use of our CMS and SEO tools
- Managed relations with two external digital marketing agencies


## Education
### University of Chicago
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paabrown

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Last updated: 2026-03-22