Paul Robello
Woodland, California, United States
Innovative Systems Architect and Sole Developer with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. Developing secure and robust internet-facing applications. Seeking to leverage extensive AWS, Python, and AI expertise to drive technological advancement and operational excellence.
Experience
Senior Azure DevOps Architect
CMG Financial | San Ramon, CA | April 2025 - Current
- Designing and implementing private, public and/or hybrid cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Designing, implementing, and securing resources including Azure Active Directory, Azure App Service Apps, Azure Virtual Desktop and Virtual Networks.
- Designing networking and security solutions.
- Creating and managing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines.
- Designing and implementing Azure Stack capabilities.
Principal Solution Architect L3
Vista Tech | Fort Lauderdale, FL | February 2022 - February 2025
- Created an end-to-end solution for a Webex AI-powered bot for booking empty leg flights.
- Developed GitLab CI/CD, Pulumi, Terraform, and AWS infra workflows in a zero-trust enterprise environment.
- Engineered an AI Vision OCR Pipeline to ingest contracts for an agentic RAG solution.
- Architected scalable infrastructure for distributed systems saving 20% on DataDog costs.
- Saved over $100k/year by right sizing RDS clusters and decommissioning unused infrastructure.
- Improved data consistency across 4+ systems via comprehensive data modeling frameworks.
- Enhanced API interoperability reducing data retrieval times by 30% through optimized RESTful services.
Software Engineering Manager
Vista Tech | Fort Lauderdale, FL | January 2019 - October 2021
- Managed and mentored a team of developers while acting as Senior Software Engineer.
- Led Agile SDLC, code reviews, and workload prioritization using Jira, Confluence, and Kanban.
Senior Software Engineer
Vista Tech | Fort Lauderdale, FL | January 2013 - January 2019
- Full stack web application development, reporting, automation, and DevOps using PHP, NodeJS, Angular, React, and Docker Swarm.
- Developed custom workflow tools and hundreds of automated reports for company-wide efficiency.
- Enhanced processing efficiency by 20% with large-scale distributed systems.
Sole Developer & Systems Architect
NCA Tile LMCC | San Francisco, CA | April 2011 - Present
- Built an internet-facing portal to track tile union contractor compliance.
- Implemented large file transfers, email handling, and violation pattern identification logic.
- Generated reports with computed distances between work-related sites.
Senior Systems/Network Engineer
Promia Inc. | San Francisco, CA | December 2001 - December 2012
- Setup and maintained workstations, servers, and networks including a cyber warfare lab.
- Implemented a custom domain controller/VPN solution using free software.
- Developed user-friendly real-time 2D/3D network asset management tools.
- Reduced vulnerabilities by 25% in 18 months by integrating best security practices.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS, 2021) – Credential ID CSQEYT2LBBB11S3C
Skills
AI
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, XAI, Groq, Ollama, LlamaCPP, LLM, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Langchain, LangSmith, Swarm, Qdrant, Chroma, PGVector
Programming Languages & Frameworks
Python, FastAPI, Flask, Pandas, Numpy, Typescript, JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, Restify, PHP, PHP Composer, Java EE, Bash, PowerShell
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK
AWS & Cloud
EC2, ECR, ECS, Fargate, BATCH, RDS, Aurora, VPC, SSM, S3, EBS, DMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, DDB, ALB, NLB, SQS, SNS, SES, ASM, CloudFront, WAF, Route53, Athena, Localstack, Bedrock, IAM
Databases & Virtualization
Aurora Postgres/MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Sqlite; Docker, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Containerization, VMWare
Web & Frontend
Next.js, React, Angular, RXJS, Vue, jQuery, Redux, Bootstrap, ThreeJS, D3, Websockets, Socket.io, Webpack, Parcel, Auth0
Other
Data Extraction, Reporting, Visualization, Automation, Integration, Workflows; Version Control: GIT, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Projects
GDC: Generic Development Container
PARCOM | GitHub
A fully containerized development environment with extensive support for AWS testing and deployments. Reduces E2E testing time by over 50% and features sidecar containers for local AWS testing and JWT authentication.
ParLlama
PARCOM | GitHub
A terminal-based UI for managing major cloud AI providers and local AI (such as Ollama), featuring multimodal LLM chat capabilities.
PAR Scrape
PARCOM | GitHub
A versatile web scraping tool with AI-powered data extraction that formats results in AI-friendly Markdown, even on asynchronous pages.
PDF Ingest
PARCOM | GitHub
An AWS solution to OCR PDFs and images using AI vision with S3, Lambda, and AWS Bedrock, emphasizing accuracy while preserving document layout.
Plant UML Lambda
PARCOM | GitHub
An AWS Lambda service with a dedicated layer for on-demand generation of PlantUML diagrams (SVG, PNG, JPG) with minimal operational cost.
PAR Arch Diagram
PARCOM | GitHub
A CLI tool that generates architectural diagrams from IAC folders or README files in seconds using AI-powered analysis.
PAR GPT
PARCOM | GitHub
A powerful CLI tool to interact with local and cloud-based LLMs in agentic or direct mode, complete with containerized code execution.