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    Paul Boutin

    Paul Boutin

    Hands-on product & engineering leader building AI products, growing teams, and shipping customer-facing platforms.

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    Founder
    The Human Flourishing Collaborative
    The Human Flourishing Collaborative
    Engineering Lead, AI Product and Platform 2024 - Present (about 2 years)
    Own product and platform engineering for Phigure, a private, pre-launch digital health product, partnering with the CPO on product direction, releases, QA, and advisor and... more beta feedback.

    Built the native SwiftUI MVP from initial scaffold to internal TestFlight in approximately six weeks, including authentication, conversational onboarding, HealthKit, personalized guidance, and action tracking.

    Built a conversational AI platform using an authenticated TypeScript WebSocket relay, Gemini Live and Vertex AI, durable context, governed retrieval, deterministic tools, and validated state changes. Established typed contracts, automated tests, code review, GitHub Actions, and backend/TestFlight delivery.
    Bank of the West
    Bank of the West
    VP, Senior Development Manager 2020 - 2023 (over 3 years)
    Led a nine-person engineering and analytics organization serving more than one million customers, with six direct reports. Partnered with UX, infrastructure, security, analytics,... more and compliance to deliver a 1,500+ page web and CMS modernization in six months.

    Introduced approximately 20 reusable React and Storybook components and four templates, with an estimated 60% improvement in feature and publishing throughput; the approach was adopted by Online Account Opening.

    Led hiring and coaching, including developing an Analytics Engineering lead. Supported a .NET Core headless CMS platform, analytics and experimentation, GitLab CI, Akamai, OWASP practices, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
    Camera IQ
    Camera IQ
    Director of Engineering 2016 - 2020 (over 3 years)
    Grew engineering from the first employee and developer to a 10-person team, with six direct reports across mobile, Unity, frontend, backend, and QA. Developed two technical... more leads and a QA manager.

    Built the frontend dashboard and led delivery of a self-service AR publishing platform with templates, browser previews, and social publishing averaging 10–15 minutes. Partnered with the CTO, CEO, Product, and Design on roadmap and execution; served as product lead for Adobe asset integration and technical lead for social platform APIs.

    Led platform delivery using Java, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Vue.js, Storybook, and CloudFront, supported by CI, automated tests, feature flags, and monitoring.
    Monotote
    Monotote
    UI Development Lead 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    Led UI development for a shoppable video product, building interfaces for processing and tagging online videos and embedding affiliate links.

    Implemented video controls... more so users could navigate product tags and links, with event tracking to measure engagement. Coordinated a remote development team and collaborated on APIs supporting core product features.

    Skills: UI development, web APIs, video interfaces, affiliate commerce, event tracking, ROI analytics, remote collaboration.
    Nomi
    Nomi
    Senior Software Engineer 2015 (6 months)
    Developed a retail analytics platform using Bluetooth beacons and triangulation to help retailers understand in-store customer activity.

    Built user interfaces and collaborated... more on an integrated architecture that reduced code duplication. Evaluated technologies against product requirements and the existing stack, documented proposals in RFCs, and built prototypes to validate designs. Conducted peer code reviews for six developers across sprint tasks.

    Skills: Software engineering, UI development, web services, software architecture, retail analytics, technology evaluation, prototyping, code review, Agile development.
    Synced Health
    Synced Health
    Co-Founder and Chief Architect 2014 - 2015 (11 months)
    Co-founded an enterprise health and wellness SaaS product. Defined product vision and architecture across web, iOS, and Android, with analytics and secure data handling.

    Worked... more directly with customers, investors, and other stakeholders to shape product direction. Established behavior-driven development, continuous integration, and experimentation practices.
    Salesforce
    Salesforce
    Technical Staff Manager, Marketing Cloud 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    Managed four frontend and backend engineers and served as technical lead for a six-person team including QA and data analytics.

    Integrated social attribution technology... more originally built as Spinback CTO through Buddy Media into Salesforce Marketing Cloud, connecting social and advertising referrals with downstream sales and signups.

    Introduced the organization’s first automated continuous integration pipeline and strengthened Scrum practices to support reliable monthly releases.
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    CTO Head of Development 2010 - 2011 (4 months)
    Oversaw all aspects of Spinback's business application development activity; I collaborated with the CEO and COO to ensure that technology and process solutions aligned with... more the company's strategic direction. My responsibilities included managing the design, development, installation, maintenance, and enhancement of system applications.
    • Led and mentored a team of onshore and offshore software developers to create social sharing cross-site tracking technology, integrating multiple social APIs to build a successful social sharing product.
    • Improved the product's user experience and produced meaningful reports for the reporting dashboard.
    • Managed an offshore development team to build Java-based reporting tools and dashboards and architected the web-based UI to work across mobile devices.
    • Developed methods to track user shares from client websites out to social sites and back to capture the ROI of each share for multiple social networks.
    • Defined the product, demos, and presentation pitch for potential investors.
    • Set up an Amazon EC2 environment for hosting at scale across multiple availability zones.

    Skills: Engineering leadership, team mentoring, Java, JavaScript, social APIs, web services, social attribution and ROI analytics, UI/UX design, Amazon EC2.
    Payvment
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    Payvment
    Co-Founder & Development Team Lead 2010 (6 months)
    Oversaw the development of the first Facebook storefront app using FBML and FBJS on the Facebook Pages API.
    • Conducted planning and daily scrum meetings in an agile work... more environment.
    • Mentored developers on team practices and agile methodologies, standardized tools, design patterns, and the usage of the Facebook platform and cloud-computing environment.
    • Using Test-Driven development practices, we built the application in PHP on the Zend Framework.
    • Worked with the DevOps team to build, script, and maintain cloud computing server farms using Right Scale on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace for continuous development and delivery.
    • Developed a JavaScript framework for XSS (cross-site scripting) calls for products, inventory, and global shopping carts stored in the Facebook application using REST services.

    Skills: PHP, Zend Framework, JavaScript, FBML/FBJS, Facebook Platform APIs, REST APIs, Amazon EC2, Rackspace, RightScale, Agile/Scrum, test-driven development, developer mentoring.
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    Payvment, Spinback, Synced Health, Salesforce, Nomi, Monotote, Camera IQ, Bank of the West, The Human Flourishing Collaborative
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    Grew Camera IQ engineering from the first developer to a 10-person team, developing technical leads and a QA manager while delivering a self-service AR publishing platform.

    Led a nine-person engineering and analytics organization at Bank of the West serving more than one million customers. Delivered a 1,500+ page web and CMS modernization in six months and introduced reusable React components, with an estimated 60% improvement in feature and publishing throughput.

    At HFC, built the Phigure SwiftUI MVP from initial scaffold to internal TestFlight in approximately six weeks. Lead product and platform engineering for this private, pre-launch digital health product, including conversational AI, HealthKit, secure TypeScript services, and automated delivery.

    Earlier, integrated Spinback social attribution technology through Buddy Media into Salesforce Marketing Cloud and introduced an automated CI pipeline for reliable monthly releases.

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    Engineering Management React.js Artificial Intelligence TypeScript Node.js Swift Software Architecture AWS Docker Kubernetes
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    Los Angeles San Diego
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