Senior engineer with experience leading development of the frontend, backend, and production operations of a variety of large software projects. Enjoy working on novel and challenging problems.

Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Leading development and implementation of large scale data platforms for cyber security and defense. Responsible for everything from product vision and domain specific research, to team mentoring and project planning, to software architecture, to actual implementation and testing. Projects all over the stack: frontend web applications for top down analysis and visualization, backend web services, distributed systems, databases, data pipelines, hadoop/spark, machine learning, .. I'm also a mentor for newer engineers/ interns and technical interviewer (both phone and in person). From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Software Engineer @ Full lifecycle software development in small teams following agile practices. Implemented a highly available and scalable messaging service built on RabbitMQ and Apache CXF, and a GWT-based app store for desktop and mobile devices. From June 2010 to April 2012 (1 year 11 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Front and back-end development on a J2EE knowledge fusion and correlation system; also redesigned and implemented the corporate website. From May 2008 to April 2010 (2 years) Software Engineer Intern @ Tested for software security vulnerabilities and installed/configured servers for a new satellite telecommunications system. From May 2007 to August 2007 (4 months)

BS, Computer Science, 3.71 @ George Mason University From 2006 to 2010 Paul Thoren is skilled in: Java, Software Development, Linux, Software Engineering, Web Services, REST, JavaScript, Bash, Git, C, Python, SQL, Machine Learning, Databases, Web Applications