# Paul Diamond

> Software Engineer at FanDuel

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

Full stack software engineer working in New York City.

Skills:
React, React Native, JavaScript, GraphQL NodeJS, Express, Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS3, Git, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS,

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ FanDuel
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Channels.org
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Worked closely with the product/design team to design and scope new features

- Translated Figma prototypes into production-ready React/Rails code

- Designed and implemented Twilio notifications for posting new content using React, Rails and Graphql

- Created a standalone application to send a webhook event to Zapier when a link is clicked

- Architected and implemented thumbnail-on-hover functionality in our custom VideoJS player

- Implemented Token gated content in which the user needed a valid NFT in order to view as well as a 
   cron job to ensure the token remained valid

- Built out a development environment to allow developers to test their NFTs

- Maintained and designed database schemas for users wallets an addition to supplying the admin 
   interface

- Responsible for weekly deploys to production using Heroku

- Participated in QA/release rotation while helping improve the documentation and process

- Employed TDD using cypress and rspec to ensure quality software

- Created a new responsive header for both the desktop and mobile experience by translating designs to 
  component hierarchy

### Solutions Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Helped close prospective clients by giving detailed demos of the Datadog product 
- Maintained a 99% satisfaction rate with customers by promptly answering questions
- Provided updates to internal wikis and external documentation to keep information current
- Utilized AWS/Docker/Kubernetes to help clients set up their infrastructure
- Mentored a new hire one-on-one for three months and led mentor sessions for all new hires
- Partnered with the sales team on strategy to close potential clients
- Built internal tools to expedite requests using Golang after identifying inefficient search process 
- Assisted customers in setting up the Datadog Agent on their organization’s unique infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Enzyme
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Built internal dashboard for business owners to view all instances of the product using React with TypeScript
-Acted as sole frontend engineer on product development for new premium billing feature
-Maintained 24 hour turn around on all priority bug fixes using Ember and Ruby on Rails
-Led Ember upgrade on the application to the latest LTS
-Practiced BDD using cucumber and capybara to ensure quality software
-Followed Agile process to reduce timeline on priority bugs for clients ensuring satisfaction
-Offered guidance on custom work for clients during weekly sales engineering meetings

### Strategic Partner/Program Manager @ Twitch
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Served as the Product Manager  for a custom Cheermote program

-Acted as the lead Project Manager for a corporate esports league overseeing product development as well as all cross department communications 

-Led internal and external communications with a premier sports league for a custom activation

### Technical Recruiter @ Twitch
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Recruited over 70+ engineers, data scientists and product managers

-Held weekly standups with engineering leadership, gaining insight on industry standard technologies/practices

### English Teacher @ Aeon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Aichi, Japan
-Taught English classes to a 100+ students

-Met with leadership to improve and optimize curriculum


## Education
### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication and Media Studies
Oakland University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23