hunter paulson

projects
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personal projects

wikiarena.org

this was supposed to be an eval for language models but while building that I got nerd sniped and ended up building what may be the fastest wikipedia race solver on the internet.

work experience

PayPal - Machine Learning Engineer

led the creation of PayPal’s central agent harness ‘Pal’. allowing any team to build MCP servers and create their own agents / workflows in a self-serve manner.

designed the algorithm and built the infrastructure to identify the root-cause component of every customer-perceived failure in real time. data was used to identify and triage issues, reclaiming $40M in revenue. Equivalent to ~1% growth of branded checkout in 2025.

building and maintaining real-time metrics pipelines for every http response and server log across all PayPal brands. the single, structured, source of truth for all site reliability metrics.

wrote transpiler from python to bigquery sql.

automated data lineage documentation by parsing and creating graph from every sql query ran in the company daily.

Boeing - ML Research Assistant

trained computer vision models and built data labeling pipelines for assemply line automation

NASA JPL - Flight Software Engineer Intern

contributed to the open source flight software framework that supported the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity.

fun fact: I was the intern who ran the autoformatter meme.

ASU Cube Satelite Lab

worked on the Phoenix 3U Cube Satelite. launched from the ISS on Feb 19, 2020.