Paul Shpilsher

Paul Shpilsher

Principal Software Engineer | Staff Engineer | Technical Lead

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About

Principal software engineer specializing in distributed systems, backend architecture, and developer platforms. Experienced architecting and building large-scale distributed systems, with a background spanning low-level Windows engineering through modern backend platforms. Enjoy solving difficult technical problems, simplifying complex architectures, and helping engineering teams deliver reliable software.

Experience

Infinitro Ltd

Tech Lead Software Engineer

Infinitro Ltd

Aug 2025 – Present

• Architected a scalable customer support platform for a crypto gaming ecosystem, combining intelligent automation, real-time messaging, and operator tooling. • Built a multi-chain blockchain explorer that reduced investigation time for customer support while eliminating reliance on third-party services. • Designed a schema-driven developer platform that generates GraphQL APIs and Rust microservices directly from PostgreSQL schemas, reducing boilerplate and enforcing architectural consistency. • Provided technical leadership across engineering initiatives through architecture reviews, mentoring, and engineering guidance.

RustGoPostgreSQL

Tech Lead Software Engineer

CCP International Ltd

Jan 2024 – Aug 2025

• Architected and delivered a conversational AI platform supporting 500K+ active conversations and processing 100M+ messages across a distributed microservices architecture. • Designed and built a large-scale social platform with intelligent content curation, increasing user engagement by 30%+. • Owned cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and production operations across DigitalOcean and Runpod, streamlining deployments and improving engineering velocity. • Led a distributed engineering team, driving technical direction, architecture decisions, code reviews, and close collaboration with product.

GoKafkaServerless
Magic Square

Senior Software Engineer

Magic Square

Dec 2022 – Oct 2023

• Designed scalable backend services for a Web3 application marketplace, integrating payment, authentication, and messaging providers. • Integrated Binance, OneSignal, OAuth providers and security services. • Improved engineering quality through architecture, code reviews and development standards.

GoPostgreSQLKafka
Sherpa

Senior Software Engineer

Sherpa

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022

• Architected a serverless notification platform processing production email workloads. • Migrated APIs to Google Cloud Run and modernized backend services.

GoGCPServerless
DevExpress

Senior Software Engineer

DevExpress

Mar 2018 – Jan 2022

• Built a scalable enterprise reporting and dashboard solution. • Led modernization initiatives improving maintainability and engineering practices.

C#.NET CoreAngular

Education

Tula State University

Tula State University

B.Sc. · Computer Science

Skills

DockerAWSSQLKafkaTypescriptJavascriptPostgresRustNode.jsGolang