Paul Burdick
Lead Backend Engineer at Ethicura
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Burdick is a Lead Backend Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering scalable web applications and SaaS platforms, specializing in PHP/Laravel and pragmatic full-stack solutions. He has led engineering teams and technical direction across startups and companies like Automox, Vacasa, and Arck Interactive, driving migrations from monoliths to microservices, CI/CD, and production-ready integrations with systems like Redis, Postgres, and third-party APIs including Twilio and OpenAI. As a co-founder and CTO of Ethicura he combines product-minded architecture with hands-on development to build an ethical consumerism MVP while bootstrapping the company. Paul’s open-source work includes maintaining Laravel Twilio integrations, showing attention to backward-compatible library upgrades and API correctness. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he pairs rigorous technical leadership with a long history of guiding teams and mentoring engineers, and outside of work he coaches Leave No Trace wilderness skills—an unusual blend of outdoor leadership and software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Medicine, Pre-Medicine at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Arts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy at Reed CollegeHMX Fundamentals/Pro online certificate program – Biochemistry Immunology Physiology, HMX Fundamentals/Pro online certificate program – Biochemistry Immunology Physiology at Harvard Medical School
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Github Skills (6)
twilio-api10
apim10
php10
api10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aloha/laravel-twilio
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Laravel Twillio API Integration
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on updating the Laravel Twilio integration library. Their contributions involved updating the Twilio library version, modifying the code to use the new version's methods, and refining the API interaction logic. The changes included correcting method calls, adding PHPDoc comments, and ensuring correct class returns. These updates demonstrate the user's ability to maintain and improve the functionality of the integration.
laravel
reedmaniac/reedmaniac
Sep 2015 - Jul 2022
Personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 79 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 11 months
reactnextjs
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