Paul Gross

I’m a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle. I have previously worked at Rvvup, Ripple, Braintree/PayPal, and ThoughtWorks.

Recent posts

ULID Identifiers and ULID Tools Website

2 minute read

Historically, when I wanted to store data in a database, I (or the project/team I was on) used an incrementing integer to uniquely identify each row (e.g. th...

Simple Command Line Function to Decode JWTs

1 minute read

I come across a lot of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) these days, and I often want a quick way to see what information is encoded in them. An easy solution is to vis...

JDBI With Custom Types

less than 1 minute read

I’ve been using JDBI recently for interacting with a database in Java and I generally like it. It lets you write explicit queries, and it is relatively simpl...