Paul Morar

About

I'm Paul, a software engineer based in Copenhagen. I started out designing and shipping front-ends, gradually slid down the stack, and these days I spend most of my time on the seams between product engineering and the platforms that hold it up.

I lead engineers at Banking Circle, where I work on observability, internal tooling, and the boring-but-vital infrastructure that lets teams move quickly without breaking things in production. Before that I built core features and pushed the performance and UX of Saxo Bank's trading app, helped Vivino grow from an online community into a unified e-commerce shop, and shipped the pricing insights at AutoUncle that helped drivers and dealers actually sell their cars.

These days I reach for TypeScript, Go, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, and a stubborn amount of bash.

Work

  1. 2024 — Now

    Principal DevOps Engineer, Technical Lead

    Banking Circle

    Leading platform and observability work across the engineering org.

  2. 2022 — 2024

    Senior DevOps Engineer, Technical Lead

    Banking Circle

    Architected and led the observability initiative. Built reusable platform components for internal engineering teams.

  3. 2022 — 2022

    Technical Lead

    Banking Circle

    Led a UI team and built core tooling: monorepo, component library, feature flag system.

  4. 2019 — 2022

    Lead Front-End Engineer

    Banking Circle

    Directed UI architecture and quality. Drove the CI/CD migration and pushed the team toward trunk-based development.

  5. 2018 — 2019

    Senior Software Engineer

    Saxo Bank

    Worked on multi-window Electron trading apps. Led the Selenium → Cypress migration. Mentored juniors.

  6. 2016 — 2018

    Front-End Engineer

    Vivino

    Shipped features across Rails, Ember and React/Redux. Pushed BEM and TDD. Led the jQuery/Bootstrap retirement.

  7. 2015 — 2016

    Designer / Front-End Engineer

    AutoUncle

    Designed and built full-stack features. Owned the dealer-facing product and the first two versions of the trading/evaluation flow.