Paul Biggar
Co-Founder CEO at Tech for Palestine
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Biggar is a serial founder and software engineer with 20 years of experience, known for co-founding CircleCI and Darklang and for founding the nonprofit TechForPalestine. Based in New York, he combines product leadership with hands-on backend engineering—his open-source contributions include F# work on Dark’s runtime, storage tests, and API serialization. He has deep experience building scalable CI systems and language-level tooling, giving him rare breadth across infrastructure, runtimes, and developer experience. Paul pairs entrepreneurial drive with a focus on open-source craftsmanship and applying engineering to social impact.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
28,199reputation
4.1mreached
123answers
104questions
latex
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linux
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parsing
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boost
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compiler-construction
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Github Skills (25)
api-doc10
serializable10
serializer10
back-end-development10
f-sharp10
testing10
serialization10
deserialization10
api10
back-end10
backend10
linux9
compiler-construction9
parsing9
latex9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
darklang/dark
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:947 reviews, 14374 commits, 2007 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Darklang project, focusing on F# code. Their work involved fixing and improving tests related to data storage, as well as implementing new features for the API, including serialization and deserialization. Furthermore, the user appears to have focused on enhancing and optimizing existing features within the project, and making the API more robust.
functional-programmingdarklangcloudbackendeditor
pbiggar/phc
Apr 2007 - Jul 2021
A compiler for PHP
Contributions:1 release, 2520 commits, 3 PRs in 14 years 5 months
compilerphp
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