# Dave Paola > Engineering leader. Builder of teams. Writer. Occasional podcast guest. Dave Paola — currently VP of Engineering at Digital Onboarding. Previously CTO at OrangeQC; cofounded Bloc, the first online coding bootcamp. Writes about engineering leadership and builds a handful of side ventures. This site exposes hierarchy in three parallel forms: human HTML, JSON-LD structured data, and agent-readable indices. Every detail page advertises a raw markdown alternate via ``. Append `.md` to any detail URL to fetch the markdown source. ## Writing - [Essays](https://davepaola.com/writing/llms.txt): Long-form pieces on engineering leadership, management, and building - [Links](https://davepaola.com/links/llms.txt): Annotated link blog — articles I've read and shared with my take ## Building - [Portfolio](https://davepaola.com/portfolio/llms.txt): Companies, products, side projects, and teams ## About - [Bio](https://davepaola.com/about): Long-form bio - [Now](https://davepaola.com/now): Current focus - [Reading](https://davepaola.com/reading): Books I recommend - [Talks](https://davepaola.com/talks): Podcast appearances and interviews - [Subscribe](https://davepaola.com/subscribe): Email newsletter - [Contact](https://davepaola.com/contact): How to reach me ## Optional - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-paola-6baa494/) - [GitHub](https://github.com/dpaola2) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dpaola2)