# Paul Newland > Software Development Engineer Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/paulnewland Resourceful and passionate software engineer who is always working to maximize knowledge and skillset in development topics. Background in developing Node.js APIs/microservices as well as complex frontends using both Angular and React (and plenty of supporting libraries). Great communicator, problem-solver, and teammate. Experience working in a startup environment as well as on an enterprise team. Enjoys creating applications and features that solve meaningful business problems and make life better for end users. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Development Engineer, C-sUAS @ Edgesource Corporation Jan 2023 – Present | Bellevue, Washington, United States ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bellevue, Washington, United States ### Engineering Lead @ Edgesource Corporation Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area - Led engineering-centric aspects of backlog and planning and balanced tasks among team members to suit their strengths and the engineering priorities - Led standup and planning meetings and offered guidance to other team members - Produced weekly updates on engineering progress for business stakeholders - Designed upgrades for application architecture in AWS, moving towards Kubernetes (EKS), and messaging with SNS, as well as implementation of Elasticsearch and DynamoDB (implementation ongoing) - Implemented multi-tenency around organizations (and users within them) for our application, enabling more efficient use of infrastructure resources - Continued implementing full stack features with Node, Angular, etc. ### Full Stack Software Developer @ Edgesource Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area - Worked to build features on the ‘Dowding’ web application under the ‘Rogue Squadron’ project in the DDS branch of the US DoD that helps government (and gov-adjacent) organizations visualize, identify, and respond to drone threats in sensitive areas using streamed sensor data. - Used Next.js and Angular frameworks to build a variety of full stack features. - Built out entire new flow for ‘groups’ in the user interface, wherein admins can scope to specific geographical areas and add users/operators so they can focus on important areas and get targeted notifications for activity within those groups. - Implemented feature flags for our main web app. - Implemented sms notifications a phone-verification flow for users to get alerts via sms - Revamped the styling for several key pages in our web application ### Senior Full Stack Software Developer @ Microsoft Team @ Infosys Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area - Same team as previous position. - Worked to replace our current idea of 'customers' in our application with customers from SAP. Focused on UI aspects of this major change in our application and integrated with our API, as well as worked on some of the API itself. ### Full Stack Software Developer @ Microsoft Team @ Infosys Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area - Member of Microsoft team working on retiring 20 year old professional services application and replacing it with a modern system. - Built features in Angular 5 application including (but not limited to), locking functionality so multiple users on different machines can't edit the same thing simultaneously (involved server-side logic as well), building our application's permission structure, doing an entire application-wide rewrite to our styling, and building several mission-critical Angular components. - Designed Node.js Express APIs for our partners within Microsoft to be backwards compatible with our old system while switching to Azure Cosmos Graph Database from SQL. - Streamlined and refactored code for better performance, cleanliness, and reliability. ### Full Stack Software Developer @ Revature Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area • Team Lead on Revature Housing, a multiple service application. My team's primary responsibility was to develop, build, and deploy both a single page Angular 5 application and assist other teams to build a RESTful .NET Core API. • Deployed the Web Application to an AWS S3 instance and deployed the API to an AWS EC2 Windows 10 sever. • Clustered and scaled our Docker containers using Kubernetes. ### Junior Software Developer @ Swyfft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Developed front-end ReactJS applications for internal business use. Updated large batches of integration tests for Swyfft’s primary, customer-facing application. Implemented variety of small/medium front-end features and bug fixes. Created database queries using LINQ (C#). Communicated with business admins to solve user problems and also to ensure proper documentation was incorporated and up to date in the application. Worked with the .NET environment to create a demo application for Swyfft’s API. Took part in daily stand-up meetings. ### Part-Time Before/After School Teacher @ YMCA of Greater Seattle Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Helped run programs for after school care. Planned activities for children that fostered youth development and empowerment. Communicated effectively with parents about the program and how their children were doing in it. Contributed to making the after school site a safe environment for kids. ### Summer Office IT Admin @ YMCA of Greater Seattle Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area Processed summer camp registrations in YMCA database. Helped sort and name files in SharePoint. Made changes to accounts in the YMCA’s databases. Answered customer/member questions and requests (through office phone). ### Outdoor Day Camp Counselor @ YMCA of Greater Seattle Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area *This position was only during the summer (2013, 2014, 2015) Managed large groups of children and organized group games and activities for them. Supervised kids on off-site field trips. Maintained a safe environment for children. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems Washington State University Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paul-newland --- Source: https://flows.cv/paulnewland JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/paulnewland/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22