Paul Chilton

Curriculum Vitae

Software engineer with experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling.

📧 paul@example.com 🌍 Auckland, New Zealand GitHub LinkedIn

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Acme Corp

Jan 2022 – Present

Led development of a high-throughput event processing platform handling 50k+ events/second. Designed and implemented microservices architecture using Node.js and TypeScript, deployed on Kubernetes. Mentored junior engineers and drove adoption of CI/CD best practices.

TypeScript Node.js Kubernetes PostgreSQL AWS CI/CD

Software Engineer

Beta Systems

Mar 2019 – Dec 2021

Built and maintained a customer-facing SaaS platform using React and Python. Improved database query performance by 40% through indexing and query optimisation. Containerised legacy services with Docker and migrated to AWS.

JavaScript Python React PostgreSQL Docker AWS

Junior Developer

Gamma Digital

Jun 2017 – Feb 2019

Developed internal tooling and automation scripts in Python and JavaScript. Maintained Linux-based server infrastructure and contributed to front-end features.

JavaScript Python Linux

Projects

example-cli

Open source

A command-line tool written in Go for managing local development environments. Includes automated setup scripts and CI/CD pipeline configuration.

Go Linux CI/CD

paulchilton.com

This website

Static personal website built with Astro and Tailwind CSS. Features a CV with interactive skill filtering, a Markdown/MDX article system, and dark mode support. Deployed via GitHub Actions.

TypeScript JavaScript CI/CD

Education

Bachelor of Science — Computer Science

University of Auckland

2013 – 2016