Engineering lead interested in building elegant, robust, scalable systems and solving hard data problems.

Chief Technology Officer @ From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Co-founder and CEO @ Onward used big data to help candidates understand their career options and connect to potential employers. From May 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 4 months) Director of Engineering @ Led the development of the new mobile Yahoo Finance, including entirely new iOS and Android apps and new backends for feed optimization and push notifications. From November 2012 to November 2013 (1 year 1 month) VP of Engineering @ Stamped was a Google Ventures- and Bain Capital-backed startup that was acquired by Yahoo in 2012; we were the first Yahoo acquisition under Marissa and formed the seed of a new engineering team in New York City. When I joined Stamped it was frantically rushing to prepare for v2 launch but dealing with some backend problems. I almost completely rebuilt Stamped's data backends -- search blending, identifying and reconciling duplicate results across results sets -- in six weeks flat for a measurable increase in accuracy and a 5x improvement to average latency. I introduced more rigorous testing standards and built core tools for testing hard-to-isolate components and designed a few system modifications to be able to handle massive launch traffic without violating third-party query rate limits. From June 2012 to November 2012 (6 months) High Frequency Trading Associate @ Researched, designed, implemented, and wrote back-testing simulations for new high-frequency trading algorithms. From November 2011 to June 2012 (8 months) Staff Software Engineer @ Tech Lead of the LocalSearch Data Quality team, 2009-2011 Tech Lead of the Real Estate Search team, 2007-2009 From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Software Engineer @ Worked on feature development and new architecture support for embedded compilers and development tools. From 2004 to 2006 (2 years)

M.Eng. and B.A., Computer Science @ Cornell University From 2002 to 2006 Computer Science @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From 2001 to 2002 BRHS From 1998 to 2001 Paul Eastlund is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Python, Computer Science, Software Design, Agile Methodologies, C++, Java, C, Software Development, Linux, Web Applications, Unix, Scalability, MySQL, Cloud Computing, Algorithms, Embedded Systems, Architecture