Paul Russo Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

AKA: Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce- Making the Slack desktop client's most critical code more reliable and performant as part of the Frontend Infrastructure team.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Joined via Postman's acquisition of Akita.- Planned and implemented integration of Akita's technology into the Postman product.

San Mateo, California, Us

- Led frontend engineering at a seed-stage API Observability company.- Rebuilt the Akita web application to a higher, production-ready level of quality and usability- Worked with CEO, Head of Product, and other engineers to define, design, and ship multiple foundational features- Iteratively optimized user onboarding using a data-driven approach- Prototyped and shipped a ChatGPT-powered feature that answers users’ questions about their APIs, while communicating the AI's risks and limitations to users.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Productionized and successfully released Workflow Builder, a React web application, on a tight timeline.- Collaborated with backend engineers and SREs to adapt client for increasing scale.- Became lead frontend engineer for Workflow Builder; mentored other engineers and guided development.- Maintained high code quality and reliability of Workflow Builder client, while shipping features that are used millions of times every day.- Contributed to prototyping of the next-generation Slack Platform.- Worked as part of Frontend Infrastructure team to help keep Slack's frontend codebase performant and high-quality at scale.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Started at Slack as one of the first two frontend engineers working on Slack's new Workflow Builder product.- Immediately contributed to early UX explorations and architectural decisions for Workflow Builder, as well as foundational pieces of Slack's React component system.- Prototyped and productionized high-visibility features to support Platform functionality inside the Slack client.

Denver, Co, Us

- Built a new React web app for editing custom photo goods.- Developed and iterated on a richly-featured JSON-based templating format for that editor.- Created an internal React-based tool for editing templates, used by employees to launch and improve dozens of products.- Architected and built an AWS Lambda-based, API Gateway-fronted backend for delivering those templates to the editor.- Worked on Java and Go backend services that handled PDF generation, image manipulation, project management, and order fulfillment.- Managed Docker-based AWS infrastructure.

- Built front-end using React and Redux.- Worked with numerous Internet-of-Things APIs.- Managed Heroku and AWS infrastructure.- Maintained and improved a Node-based cloud architecture.- Wrote tests for React and Node code using Jest and Mocha/Chai.- Developed an Amazon Alexa Skill and a Google Assistant Action.- Interacted directly with customers to provide support.

New York, Ny, Us

- Built responsive sites for brands including Domino's and Pearl Izumi.- Created prototypes for client pitches.- Completed projects within tight deadlines.- Coordinated with a QA team to ensure projects looked and functioned properly across a variety of browsers, platforms, and devices.- Maintained build systems (Gulp and Grunt) and wrote project documentation.- Worked with various social APIs, including Facebook and Twitter.- Built upon feedback from designers and creative directors.

- Collaborated as the sole developer with the strategic director and the art director of a two-person creative agency startup.- Built a completely custom, responsive WordPress site for Denver-based non-profit Mile High Connects.

- Worked in a large, rapidly changing codebase.- Fixed bugs, created scheduled job scripts, made improvements in accordance with our roadmap, and created a new section of the site for a prominent video feature.