Paul Marbach

Paul Marbach is a software engineer, with primary expertise in web engineering, developer tooling, and observability.

Paul has worked on a number of open source projects including Backstage, web-scripts, and react-vis-force, and co-founded Picardy in 2013.

In the past, Paul wrote music for chorus, theatre, and dance. Paul won the Roy Crane Award for his score for And Then Came Tango, a children's ballet selected for performance as the Univ. of Texas at Austin's Dept. of Theatre and Dance Fall 2012 Touring Production.

Education

New York

  • JPMorganChase
  • March 2024 - present
  • Principal Software Engineer

  • Details of experience at JPMorganChase are confidential.

  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • September 2021 - March 2024
  • Staff Software Engineer
  • Built out Data SDKs, a team tasked with standardizing client telemetry across Max and ensuring the successful ingress and enrichment of this telemetry through the data pipelines to analysis and reporting systems. Developed TypeScript, Brightscript, and C++ SDKs for use in client repos, built event validation tooling, and worked on automated process to publish and update these SDKs to ensure system-wide compatibility. Helped develop dashboards and training material for client teams who are on-call interpreting this data in realtime.
  • Stripe
  • November 2020 - August 2021
  • Software Engineer
  • Full-stack engineer working on Financial Connections UI and API. Responsible for planning and delivering implementation of the web UI elements of the feature, as well as API design for Stripe.js API, including rigorous proposal and review process. Also worked on full-stack tasks to support the UI.
  • Spotify
  • June 2017 - September 2020
  • Senior Software Engineer
    • 2017-2018, senior engineer for Ad Studio. Worked on the product launch in the US, UK, CA, and AU. Primarily focused on web.
    • 2019-present, senior engineer in Platform Developer Experience. worked on open source and internal developer experience tooling. Worked on backend services, web, and data engineering, including building supporting tools for the initial open source release of Backstage.
  • Uber
  • May 2016 - June 2017
  • UI Developer
  • UI Engineer on Observability Applications. Built Synoptic UI, a monitoring and alerting tool for engineers at Uber. Helped write Jaeger UI. Maintained Commander, an incident and outage reporting and communication tool. Contributed to uMonitor UI, the alerting application in the Observability stack. Open-sourced react-vis-force.

Austin

  • Picardy
  • July 2013 - May 2021
  • Co-founder, Chief Technical Officer
  • Develop and maintain code for Picardy's API, website, and other technical aspects of the music theory and ear training app. Teach and manage Scrum processes for Picardy across business functions. Work with designers, business stakeholders, support team, etc. to plan roadmap, develop features, and fix bugs.
  • HomeAway
  • February 2014 - April 2016
  • Senior UX Developer
  • UI Developer on owner-side dashboard applications such as Reservation Manager, Rates Editor, and Supplier Onboarding. Contributed many reusable, npm-includable front-end projects in use across HomeAway. Aided in design discovery for numerous projects and conducted trainings for libraries such as React and Backbone.
  • OneID
  • October 2012 - February 2014
  • Senior UX Developer

  • UX Development (Javascript, Backbone.js, jQuery, Underscore.js, CSS, HTML, Require.js, Grunt, Django, Foundation, Ember, and others). Worked heavily on OneID's rich client-side API and modal library, which relying parties use to interact with OneID's various features such as authentication and secure attribute release.

    Projects while at OneID include:

    • OneID JavaScript API: designed API architecture, moved Node.js API to full Require.js setup
    • developer.oneid.com: a developer dashboard which allows OneID developers to evaluate OneID, run OneID code that they can edit live, view response payloads, and check out our OneID SDKs.
    • OneID QuickFill browser extension: helped develop our easy form fill browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
  • Optaros
  • July 2011 - October 2012
  • User Experience Consultant
  • Developed front-end code for web applications; provided guidance and advice to clients regarding design and interaction of applications; wireframing; requirements gathering and blueprinting; estimated project effort for pro formas. Consulted for large clients like Walmart.com, McKesson, and Macy's.
  • International Studies Abroad
  • January 2011 - May 2011
  • Intern
  • Developed front-end code for web applications; provided guidance and advice to clients regarding design and interaction of applications; wireframing; requirements gathering and blueprinting; estimated project effort for pro formas. Consulted for large clients like Walmart.com, McKesson, and Macy's.
  • The University of Texas, Austin
  • June 2009 - December 2010
  • Student Software Engineer
  • Worked for numerous departments in appointment and contract work, including:
    • Center for Teaching and Learning (June 2009 - December 2010)
    • McCombs School of Business (February 2010 - December 2010)
    • College of Fine Arts (February 2010 - November 2010)