Paul Schick

Associate Architect and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) AI Practice Lead

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Summary

Associate Architect and GCP AI Practice Lead with 5+ years of full-stack software engineering and cloud architecture for enterprise healthcare and legal clients. Builds Java, Go, TypeScript, and Python services on Spring Boot, React, and Angular, applying system design and RESTful APIs across web application development and legacy system modernization. Mentors developers, leads code reviews, and delivers agentic AI prototypes and a WebSphere-to-OpenShift migration on repeatable CI/CD pipelines.

Experience

  1. CEI

    Dec 2020 - Present · Pittsburgh, PA

    1. Associate Architect and GCP AI Practice Lead

      Dec 2025 - Present

      • Lead cloud architecture and system design for enterprise healthcare and legal clients, applying design patterns and API integration in Java and RESTful APIs to improve scalability and compliance.

      • Demonstrate generative AI prototypes to technical teams, building large language model applications in Python and Docker to address client gaps and deliver concrete solutions.

      • Create open-source and internal AI projects using prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and AI agent workflows to accelerate agentic development.

      • Partner with sales executives on GCP pre-sales engagements, crafting AI solution proposals for VP-level stakeholders that moved deals toward closure.

    2. Senior Software Engineer

      Dec 2023 - Dec 2025

      • Mentored 7 developers across 4 Scrum teams and led code reviews and pull requests, keeping engineering standards consistent across a multi-team program.

      • Conducted 50+ technical interviews, screening consultants so client teams hired engineers who could deliver.

      • Built member-facing single-page applications with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, applying responsive web design so health-plan members could find care providers online.

      • Developed Spring Boot and OpenLiberty back-end services exposing RESTful APIs with JSON over DB2 and Oracle relational databases, using asynchronous processing to serve member and provider data.

      • Modernized a legacy WebSphere application by migrating it to OpenShift, OpenLiberty, Java 21, and Gradle, retiring a platform the client could no longer support.

      • Built that migration's CI/CD pipeline, running unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to give the client a repeatable modernization path.

      • Designed and deployed the production Azure infrastructure with Terraform, provisioning VMs, networking, and storage, increasing availability and reducing deployment time.

    3. Developer II

      Dec 2022 - Dec 2023 · details

      • Built the rules engine behind a call-center guidance platform, encoding complex business logic that shows reps real-time answers and cuts new-rep ramp-up.

      • Engineered a router bridge in TypeScript that let a legacy AngularJS application migrate to Angular incrementally, completing the migration ahead of schedule.

    4. Developer I

      Dec 2021 - Dec 2022 · details

      • Remediated 25+ healthcare applications for Section 508 accessibility, taking failing apps to passing so members with disabilities could use them.

      • Delivered new JavaScript web features from user stories on Agile development teams, deploying through CI/CD pipelines, which improved navigation speed and reduced defect rates.

    5. Associate Developer

      Dec 2020 - Dec 2021 · details

      • Developed backend services with OpenLiberty and Spring Boot, built front-end features in Next.js, and wrote Python data-processing scripts for an enterprise consulting project that shipped to the client.

Skills

Languages

  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Bash

AI and Agentic

  • LangGraph
  • Pydantic AI
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Vertex AI
  • Gemini
  • generative AI
  • LLM pipelines
  • agent orchestration
  • agentic systems
  • AI experimentation
  • AI-assisted software development

Back-End

  • Spring Boot
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • NodeJS
  • Express
  • RESTful APIs
  • JSON
  • OpenLiberty
  • event-driven APIs (IBM MQ, Azure Event Bus, GCP Pub/Sub)
  • database technologies (PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2)
  • API integration

Front-End

  • Angular
  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS

Engineering

  • Agile development
  • full-stack software engineering
  • web application development
  • system design
  • design patterns
  • object-oriented design
  • user stories and use cases

Cloud

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure

DevOps

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • continuous deployment (CD)
  • version control systems (Git, GitHub)
  • OpenShift
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Gradle
  • Linux

Certifications & Education

Certifications

  • Professional Cloud Architect

    Google Cloud

  • Associate Cloud Engineer

    Google Cloud

  • Azure Network Engineer Associate

    Microsoft

  • Azure Fundamentals

    Microsoft

Education

  • B.S., Neuroscience

    University of Pittsburgh · 2016