Paul Devine

Paul Devine

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Vice President of Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Updater
    Vice President of Engineering
    Updater
    Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 8 months)
  • NerdWallet
    Vice President Of Engineering
    NerdWallet
    Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 (10 months)
  • NerdWallet
    Senior Engineering Director
    NerdWallet
    Nov 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 5 months)
  • Stripe
    Head of Non-Card Payments
    Stripe
    Nov 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year)
  • Marine Applied Research Exploration MARE
    Board Member
    Marine Applied Research Exploration MARE
    Jul 2017 - Jul 2019 (2 years 1 month)
    Advise Marine Applied Research & Exploration (MARE) on strategic direction and development to support their mission: To explore and document the world’s oceans ​​to support their conservation and management. You can find out about their exciting work here: https://www.maregroup.org
  • Taskrabbit
    Vice President of Engineering
    Taskrabbit
    Jan 2015 - Oct 2018 (3 years 10 months)
  • SAY Media
    Vice President of Engineering
    SAY Media
    May 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 8 months)
    • Hired excellent engineers quickly in competitive San Francisco market. • Redesigned agile development process to reduce overhead and increase engineer efficiency. • Mentored engineering managers and architects to be more effective leaders and hirers. Coached individual engineers to foster career growth. • Introduced continuous integration and then continuous deployment to increase velocity and move from releases per week to releases per day. • Inspired my team through my passion for performance, distributed systems, and beautiful front-end design improved by data and metrics. • Improved ops monitoring system to identify outages in minutes rather than hours. Better integrated cloud services into our traditional data center approach. • Buil
  • SAY Media
    Senior Director of Engineering
    SAY Media
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2013 (2 years 1 month)
    • Led team of 20 engineers who built Say Media's internal platform of REST services. • Managed data warehouse team using Hadoop, Hive, and MySQL to process 2 GB of logs per hour, providing the business with key billable metrics. • Brought code coverage from under 30% up to 75% for most products. • Worked with team to upgrade our iOS and Android SDK to create a stable API for ad network partners. • Improved reliability of delivery commitments through improvement of process and estimation. • Reduced maintenance of legacy code bases by eliminating needlessly complex systems.
  • Oracle
    Engineering Director, WebLogic Communications Platform
    Oracle
    Jun 2008 - Sep 2008 (4 months)
    Helped craft the Oracle Telecommunications strategy post the BEA acquisition. Kept software release schedule on track despite acquisition uncertainties, released software 2 months after acquisition on schedule while learning the Oracle process.
  • Bubble Motion
    Vice President of Engineering
    Bubble Motion
    Jan 2008 - Nov 2011 (3 years 11 months)
    • Responsible for overall development and QA engineering for Bubble Motion, developing a mobile micro-blogging service (text, voice, and video) used by top movie stars in Asia—from Bollywood to Japanese Pop. • Oversee development of a distributed messaging platform that includes mobile, web, and server apps. Led team that developed iOS and Android applications. • Migrated some functions to Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers to reduce cost, ease management, and increase ability to handle dynamic load spikes. • Rebuilt the team from the ground up reorganizing team members spread across US, Singapore, China, Finland, and India, eliminating needless overhead while increasing productivity. • Lead team to increase scalability per server by 10x, saving hu
  • BEA Systems
    Senior Engineering Manager
    BEA Systems
    Jun 2005 - Jun 2007 (2 years 1 month)
    • Led development of WebLogic SIP Server, the leading SIP Java EE application development platform for VOIP and IMS application development. • Delivered three releases of WebLogic SIP Server on time and on budget, in less than two years. • Help support pre- and post-sales efforts to ensure customer satisfaction, including coordinating with sustaining engineering and support groups. • Worked with peers on the parent WebLogic Server product to resolve product dependency issues. • Mentored team of 11, working with team members to grow and develop skill sets. • Helped refine product architecture and provided feedback on code implementation.
  • BEA Systems
    Engineering Director, WebLogic Communications Platform
    BEA Systems
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2008 (3 years 1 month)
    • Migrated team to agile continuous integration model, increasing product quality and scheduling flexibility. • Team built middleware platform for scalability and HA to make building large-scale distributed apps easier. • The J2EE container provided telephony APIs for call control, 3G messaging, billing, and other telephony network application development, as well as sophisticated session management. • Introduced in-memory key/value store for call related data to reduce SIP message processing latency to 50ms/message, while handling millions of simultaneous callers. • Products used by tier-1 operators such as AT&T and France Telecom in clusters up to 500 machines/site. • Managed team that delivered JSR 289 the SIP Servlet v1.1 specification.
  • Sonim Technologies Inc
    Software Engineering Director
    Sonim Technologies Inc
    Jul 2003 - Jul 2005 (2 years 1 month)
    Engineering director developing cellular VOIP application.
  • P
    Indepenent Consultant/Software Engineer
    Paul Devine Inc
    Sep 2000 - Jul 2003 (2 years 11 months)
    • Worked on a variety of projects providing technical strategy and implementations. • Engineered a knowledge management system for Visa. • Helped Sun create a strategy for their iForce Partner web site. • Built a salary management tool for Genentech. • Built a prototype digital rights management system for Kontiki. • Created a budget, hiring strategy, and overall engineering plan for a startup.
  • L
    Director of Web Development
    Liquid Audio
    Jun 1999 - Sep 2000 (1 year 4 months)
    • Managed Web production, user-interaction design, and engineering for an online music store similar to the iTunes music store. • Developed a fast-track process and team for time-sensitive projects, including building e-commerce solutions for Yahoo, Sony, Real, HP and various other clients. • Set strategy and lead implementation of complex multi-language site built on Oracle, ATG Dynamo, Perl, MySQL, and Apache.
  • T
    Director of Web Technology
    TechTV
    Dec 1997 - Jun 1999 (1 year 7 months)
    • Managed team creating video and text publishing system using StoryServer, TCL, Real Media, Windows Media, and Oracle. • Started as Development Manager of small team, promoted to Director of Web Technology after showing leadership and technical expertise.
  • Z
    Lead Engineer
    ZDNet
    Dec 1997 - Nov 1998 (1 year)
    Managed local team contributing to develop brand new web publishing system for ZDNet in under 4 months.
  • Macworld Magazine
    Online Manager
    Macworld Magazine
    May 1994 - Sep 1997 (3 years 5 months)
    • Directly responsible for all online editorial, design, production, and engineering. • Managed a budget of $1.5 million and supervised eight employees. • Started as an Assistant Editor, promoted up to Manager of Online through hard work and dedication. • Developed the engineering behind one of the Web's first database-driven sites.
  • Macworld Magazine
    Online Manager
    Macworld Magazine
    Jan 1994 - Jan 1997 (3 years 1 month)
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  • Vassar College
    BA, Women's Studies
    Vassar College
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