Paul Clark
Technical Business Consultant Software Architect at Various Clients
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Clark is a Technical Business Consultant and Software Architect with 16 years of experience designing applications and architectures for agencies and global clients such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and TED. Based in Orlando, he blends hands-on back-end development—including contributions to widely used WordPress projects like AMP for WordPress and a GitHub-based plugin updater—with strategic consulting that bridges product, ops, and business needs. A lifelong educator, he has taught design and programming at colleges, conferences, and companies, and brings a multidisciplinary background spanning business administration, neuroscience, philosophy, and multiple languages. Having lived on five continents, he pairs a global perspective with practical engineering skills and a curiosity that extends to experimental music and fieldwork like hiking.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, December 2024, Neuroscience, 4.0, Bachelor of Science, December 2024, Neuroscience, 4.0 at Arizona State UniversityJapanese; Religion; Guitar., Japanese; Religion; Guitar. at Edmonds CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Pepperdine UniversityChinese; Real Estate; Sign Language; Guitar., Chinese; Real Estate; Sign Language; Guitar. at City College of San Francisco
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
apim10
php10
api10
github-api10
apidoc10
oauth10
git9
debugging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amp-wp
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:396 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the AMP for WordPress plugin. They added UUID functionality for diagnostics and addressed issues related to error logging and diagnostic data sending. Furthermore, the user made improvements in functionality and corrected code within the admin-related components and also worked on styling and UI modifications within the administrative interface.
wordpresswordpress-pluginamp
radishconcepts/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater
Jun 2012 - Oct 2012
This class is meant to be used with your Github hosted WordPress plugins. The purpose of the class is to allow your WordPress plugin to be updated whenever you push out a new version of your plugin; similarly to the experience users know and love with the WordPress.org plugin repository.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to enhancing the WordPress plugin's functionality for updating plugins hosted on private GitHub repositories. Their work involved creating an OAuth setup screen and modifying the plugin's interaction with the GitHub API, including the use of access tokens. They addressed translation issues, fixed a bug related to transients, and optimized the code through the use of `add_query_args`.
wordpress-plugin
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