Paul Rangel

Paul Rangel

Engineering Manager · Web Platforms & Client Interfaces

Berkeley, CA · linkedin.com/in/paulrangel

Summary

Engineering leader with 15+ years shipping design-driven web platforms at scale. Founding frontend engineer on Crusoe Cloud, now managing the Client Interfaces team behind its Console, CLI, Terraform provider, and docs. Previously architected the flagship video workflow platform rewrite at Comcast Technology Solutions. Repeated pattern: take ambiguous, high-stakes projects, build the team, and ship on deadline.

Experience

Crusoe - AI cloud infrastructure

Sep 2021 – Present

Manager, Software Engineering - Client Interfaces

2025 – Present

  • Lead the team owning every customer touchpoint on Crusoe Cloud: Console, CLI, Terraform provider, Admin Console, and documentation.
  • Scaled the team from 3 to 6 engineers and into one of the company's top performers; members earned top-tier ratings and Staff promotion packets within 18 months.
  • Led AI Studio MVP across six teams (Storage, Design, Product, Marketing, Data, Security) for Crusoe's managed inference launch, absorbing late scope additions without slipping the date.
  • Delivered platform work that contributed to Crusoe's Gold Rating in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX, ranked above AWS, Google Cloud, and Lambda.
  • Driving the IPO-critical API v1 migration across gateways, clients, and docs with SRE, Security, and Product.
  • Made AI-assisted development standard practice: shared component and skills framework, self-service metrics agent, and tooling that lets designers iterate directly in code.

Senior Software Engineer II

Jan 2024 – 2025

  • Technical lead for Crusoe's web presence: shipped Crusoe Cloud, Crusoe Industries, and Crusoe.ai sites plus docs and compliance properties, including a high-visibility launch timed to the AWS conference.
  • Established end-to-end testing for portal deployments and built the portal design system with Storybook and per-branch preview deployments.
  • Onboarded and managed remote contractors, mentored engineers across teams, and helped design the interview process used to hire Crusoe's design team.

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Jan 2024

  • Founding frontend engineer on Crusoe Cloud: first commit through full deployment of the customer and admin portals; sole developer of all portal features through early storage and networking releases.
  • Redesigned and shipped the Crusoe Cloud website; built full-stack auth/CORS infrastructure and the team's GitLab CI pipeline.

thePlatform / Comcast Technology Solutions

Jul 2008 – Sep 2021

Lead Software Engineer & Architect - Console

Dec 2017 – Sep 2021

  • Architected the rewrite of the flagship video workflow UI in React, GraphQL, and TypeScript, deployed globally on AWS; hired and managed the engineering team.

Lead Software Engineer - Consulting Services

Dec 2015 – Dec 2017

  • Hired and trained a team delivering multiple video workflow UIs in Docker, React, and modern JavaScript; owned engineering decisions on builds, specs, and delivery cycles.

Senior Software Engineer - Consulting Services

Jan 2013 – Nov 2015

  • Built video player integrations for NBC News, Fox, and the 2014 Winter Olympics; known for on-time delivery across numerous client-facing codebases.

Senior Software Engineer - Player Development Kit

Jul 2008 – Dec 2010

  • Implemented a video Player Development Kit in Flash and Java (transpiled via GWT); co-designed a metalanguage for rapid deployment of web and mobile players.

Skills

Education

Additional

Advisor and contributor, begabbi.com (breast cancer awareness app) · Published author, former cancer researcher · Interests: mounted archery, capoeira, history