Paul Lindner

Current

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Committer at The Apache Software Foundation
Co-Author at Pearson Technology Group

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Past

Manager - hi5 Platform at Hi5
Engineering/Operations at Six Apart
Senior Engineer / Development Lead at Critical Path

Director - Web Information Systems at Red Hat
Internet Technical Coordinator, Webmaster, Hostmaster at International Telecommunication Union
Programmer/Analyst at University of Minnesota

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Education

University of Minnesota

Recommended

8 people have recommended Paul

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Paul Lindner’s Summary

My goal has always been to design simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. Problems I've solved and continue to interest me include:

- Delivering the best results from technical staff by managing, leading, and mentoring.
- Software Development of high volume internet applications.
- Systems Engineering of scalable and highly available web site infrastructure.

Paul Lindner’s Specialties:

Internet systems design and implementation. Leading software development and operations teams. Internet/Web standards. Large-scale Java environments. Memcache server and client. Public Speaking. OpenSocial and many other technologies.

Paul Lindner’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)

Many cool things with opensocial, identity, and open standards to come!
Committer

The Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Major contributor to the Apache Shindig Project, including design and implementation of the OpenSocial Messaging API.
Co-Author

Pearson Technology Group

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2002 — Present (8 years )

Co-wrote the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook with Geoffrey Young and Randy Kobes.
Manager - hi5 Platform

Hi5

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2006 — May 2009 (2 years 8 months)

Leading hi5's effort to create the best social applications development environment for internal and external developers using OpenSocial and other technologies.

Previously responsible for scaling key systems to support hundreds of millions of users using a combination of Postgresql, Memcache, and plenty of gumption.
Engineering/Operations

Six Apart

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 7 months)

All aspects of Operations and Engineering. Selecting, evaluating and purchasing server/network hardware from Dell, Juniper, f5.

Contracting for data center space and ISPs with Equinix, 365 Main, MCI, Layer 42, Internap and Akamai.

Architecting storage, databases and open source software components into a complete system using Apache, mod_perl, perl, Squid, Postgres, MySQL, and NFS.

Automating tasks and procedures, monitoring and collecting performance metrics with Cacti, Keynote and more.

Improved reliability with build/release processes using svn, rpm and cfengine.

Writing application code for TypePad and Typekey with an eye for simplicity and performance.

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Senior Engineer / Development Lead

Critical Path

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CPTH; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — April 2004 (3 years 4 months)

Architecture, design and implementation of Critical Path's Hosted Platform, Calendar Server, and Webmail produces.
Director - Web Information Systems

Red Hat

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)

August 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Led the redhat.com web development team, hiring and retaining staff. Designed and implemented a global three-tier web architecture for personalization, commerce and support.
Internet Technical Coordinator, Webmaster, Hostmaster

International Telecommunication Union

(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 3 months)

Developed and managed web sites for the ITU and UN High Commission for Human Rights. Maintained a stable environment while adding significant new features.
Programmer/Analyst

University of Minnesota

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1990 — July 1996 (6 years 4 months)

Pioneering design and development of key Internet technologies
- Internet Gopher, Protocol, Unix Client/Server
- Subscription services for Legislate in Perl
- Search engines using NeXT and WAIS technology
- Secure, web-enabled form processing systems (FormsNirvana).