About Us: Paul aka pasilveira

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:39:00 -0000

Paul aka pasilveira is on the Engineering Team where he works on System Operations. The Sys Ops engineers work with the databases and the servers — the framework on which all of us rely. He is very vocal and passionate about keeping Etsy up and running — and has even been known to go head to head with Etsy founder and engineer Haim, a very intimidating debater, about the best Sys Ops methods.

Notice how Etsy hasn't been crashing at all lately? Paul is one member of the team that keeps Etsy operating as smoothly as possible. He's also working hard with Haim, Dusten, Ian, CB, George, and Joe P to move our servers to a new — more optimized — space. These guys don't get enough credit ... because if they're doing their jobs well, you don't notice what they're doing!

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Paul Fun Facts:

Paul is from the town next to where Vanessa grew up in Southern Massachusetts.
Despite living in North Carolina for many years, he has a detectable New England accent (which is how Vanessa identified him as a "Masshole.")
He moved to North Carolina because the weather is so awful in New England.
Bob pointed out he uses ellipses ALL of the time!
He plays hockey.
He's a Red Sox fan.
According to Joe P., he likes to use "deltas" to describe standard deviations in a graph.
His management style is closest to Scrum.
He is very susceptible to Etsy Office Plague.
He loves his coffee from Dunkin Donuts and he's certain the secret to the DD is a constant 200 degrees.
He has a daughter, twin boys and another baby on the way.
Paul is of Portuguese descent and we think he can speak Portuguese though we need Beth aka bethela to confirm that.

Thank you, Paul, for digging this baby picture out of your parents' closet. Very, very cute.

Etsy has had quite a growth spurt in the past year, and we have the awkward pictures to prove it. We've been posting a series of About Us pieces to help you get to know the Etsy admin (and since many of us work remotely, for the admin to get to know each other!). You've seen the admin badge, and maybe you're a bit curious about the person behind it! For more on Etsy's mission and about the company, please see our About page (the link is in the little blue footer of every Etsy page).

Below you'll find some of Paul's favorites and also some special sellers from North Carolina.

About Us: Mike aka MikeH

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:27:00 -0000

Etsy has had quite a growth spurt in the past year, and we have the awkward pictures to prove it. We are posting a series of About Us pieces to help you get to know the Etsy admin (and since many of us work remotely, for the admin to get to know each other!). You've seen the admin badge, and maybe you're a bit curious about the person behind it! For more on Etsy's mission and about the company, please see our About page (the link is in the little blue footer of every Etsy page).

Next up is Mike aka MikeH, on our Engineering Team. Mike works remotely from Massachusetts so we don't get to see him all that much here at the Labs. When he comes to visit, he strikes me as a really smart and gentle soul. Plus, he's also from the armpit of Massachusetts, a bond I also share with Etsy engineer, Alec.

One of his main interests outside of Etsy is video and filmmaking. We on the Storque Team are eager to get him to make a video for this here blog!

Mike sounds like a fellow with very interesting talents, especially when you ask the other engineers for Fun Facts:

He's a dwarf-shaman.
His cat types for him half the time.
He has a black belt in twisted.

Mike, unlike most of us, can actually play the guitar instead of just Guitar Hero.* He sent this to me as his awkward photo, but he just looks...talented.

As we all know, Mike is a ninja, but we've uncovered early evidence of him as a young pirate:

*Bonus points: in the comments below, name the other Etsy admin who also play guitar.

Mike picked some favorites below. See all posts in this About Us series.

Storque articles by MikeH

About Us: Paul aka pasilveira

About Us: Mike aka MikeH