# Sebastian Paige

> Software Engineer and Builder | Debugging connoisseur | Azure | TypeScript | Node | React

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sebastianpaige

Experienced Software Engineer dedicated to reliability, performance, and feature fit. I enjoy debugging and exploring the guts of systems. 



Currently, looking to make my next move. I am looking for high collaboration across domains and enjoy jumping in to pair or unblock others. 



Previously @ AstrumU on serveral different products including our data platform. My deep dives into durable orchestration helped us to optimize and scale data intensive apis and workflows. 



The core of my full-stack expertise is TypeScript Node.js + React SPA but I also work with FastAPI and plain HTML templates and CSS. I enjoy improving DEVX and infra where needed to support complete features and team needs.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ AstrumU®
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Bellevue, WA
- Optimized a distributed data processing API on Azure Durable Functions by refactoring
file-chunk streaming and intelligent caching, resulting in a 15x increase in
throughput

- Mitigated technical risk by writing Spike documents, aligning engineers and stakeholders
on architectural scope and feasibility prior to implementation

- Enhanced service stability and sprint velocity through targeted refactoring efforts,
resolving high-priority bugs, and increasing unit test coverage across the service
ecosystem

- Built high quality APIs with both Nodejs (TypeScript) and FastAPI (Python)

- Wrote and optimized SQL queries

### Software Engineer @ Clearviction
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, WA
- Developed website and refactored conviction tool based on Figma mockups using
React to support increased user understanding of our mission and core service

- Fixed high priority accessibility bugs in our React Components resulting in raising our
Lighthouse accessibility score (58->98) by 40%

- Wrote unit tests for our Components increasing coverage by 20%

### Bank Teller @ KeyBank
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Bellingham, Washington, United States

### Resident Advisor @ University of Washington, Bothell
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Western Governors University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29