# Paul M.

> Software Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/paulm

Generalist software engineer, master of far too many build systems. Rust enthusiast, graphics nerd. Always happy to talk about the future of cross-platform desktop UI.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Atomic Semi
Jan 2026 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Merk LLC
Jan 2023 – Present
• Led development and production deployment of LiveView Native's core Rust
library, implementing cross-platform FFI architecture spanning Swift, Kotlin, enabling seamless multi-platform client support
• Audited, triaged DRM for companies distributing licensed binaries
using radare2. Prevented potential thousands of dollars in product loss by
identifying critical DRM bypass methods.
• Cross platform real time video processing plugins for
Adobe After Effects in Rust. Wrote bindings to widely used licensing framework and contributed to open source SDK bindings.
• Visualizers and technical art for several artists, including online interactive digital galleries, eCommerce sites, and wasm enabled image and video processing tools.

### Software Engineer @ Rapid7
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Vectorworks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Kalix systems
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
• Prototyping, development, and maintenance on Herald, an experimental cross platform end-to-end encrypted messaging platform. 

• Maintained and improved existing OSS Qt/Rust binding generation packages from KDE.

• Wrote company wide market research digests.

• Wrote and deployed scalability visualization using D3.js, ArcGIS, and Python.

### Intern @ UCSC Human Computer Interaction Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California
• Designed and Implemented experimental UI's. Completed UX experiments and data aggregation using AWS Mechanical Turk.

• Developed a robust BOTO3 based toolkit for the deployment and processing of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITS).


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mobile-bungalow
- GitHub: https://github.com/mobile-bungalow

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Last updated: 2026-04-10