Hey, I'm Paolo.
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Software Engineer I @ Toast
Fourth year student at Northeastern University in Boston
Work Experience
Software Engineer I on Payments Transactions
Software Engineering Co-op
Embedded Software Engineering Co-op
Toast┃
Boston, MA
June 2026 - Present
- Building and maintaining core payment infrastructure processing more than $500 million daily.
- Developing and maintaining APIs powering payment processing for internal engineering teams across Toast.
- Implementing payment processing optimizations to improve transaction reliability and cost efficiency.
Toast┃
Boston, MA
July 2025 - December 2025
- Worked as part of a 5-person engineering team to build and maintain highly resilient infrastructure for payment routing and processing for Toast's card volume of >$100B GPV annually
- Developed a Single-Page Application and backend platform, enabling dynamic debit routing across card networks and individual restaurants
- Collaborated with product managers and cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
Keurig Dr. Pepper┃
Burlington, MA
July 2024 - December 2024
- Developed methods to validate bi-weekly internal data releases, reducing testing from a week to three minutes
- Contributed to feature development and bug fixes across various platforms
- Utilized IAR and Eclipse to implement firmware updates to ESP32 chips
Skills
Education
September 2022 - April 2026
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, concentration in A.I.
GPA: 3.88 / 4