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Paul Dean

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Senior Software Engineer, Booking Holdings - VS Code extensions · TypeScript · CLI design

Works at
Booking Holdings
Location
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
8+ years experience
Education
Penn State
Languages
English
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Overview

8 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Booking Holdings, where I work on the developer experience team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 5. Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 28 a week to 3. Before that: Databricks and Mastercard. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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  • Working sessions on compilers
  • Second opinions on CLI design decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests
Skills
VS Code extensionsRustLSPcompilersTypeScriptCLI design

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Booking Holdings · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 45% in two quarters.
  2. Software Engineer
    May 2021 - Nov 2024
    Databricks · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Wrote the LSP service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jul 2019 - May 2021
    Mastercard · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 3.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 26 a week to 2.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
    Uber · 9 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 89 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 20% in two quarters.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2025

Built with LSP and CLI design. 1305 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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