# Paul Kinsky

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/paulkinsky

I enjoy crafting elegant logical structures, working with powerful abstractions, and solving problems in one line (before refactoring for readability).

For fun, I solve project Euler problems and tinker with laser cutters.

My favorite design pattern is Flyweight.

Currently travelling (Nepal, Thailand, ..). Will return to the SF bay area and the tech industry early January 2017.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Takt
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nitro
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Using Scala, Play, Akka Streams and Kafka to build out backend microservices.

- Created open-source library that generates Scala case classes from Avro schemas: https://github.com/Nitro/avro-codegen.

- Built backend microservice that handles PDF document rasterization, signing and conversion.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Aquto
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston MA
Building responsive systems using Scala, Akka, and Reactive Streams.

### Software Engineer @ Boston Technologies Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Boston MA
-automated internal reports
-optimized legacy code
-effected 10x speed improvement on widely-used pages.

### Software Engineer @ Pegasystems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Boston MA
Maintained and adapted subsystems of the Rules Engine at the heart of Pegasystems's BPM/BRE product, Process Commander. Designed and implemented engine APIs for internal and external 
-Designed, developed and tested rolling update and seamless user-session transfer functionality for multi-node environments. 
-Improved code quality by building and using automated rewrite tools to replace 40,000 strings with references to preexisting constants. 
-Built a logging system that instruments targeted method calls using AspectJ.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paul-kinsky-04689154

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