If you’re the kind of person who has ever thought “It’d be great to work with Patrick full-time” I have exciting news for you: in November I was formally restructured into unemployment and I’m looking for a new role. I’m mostly interested in leadership roles with organizations that have platform/SRE or security engineering functions.

I’ve done many things to make complex technology easy for people and organizations to hold, both as an individual contributor and an executive in the platform/SRE and security engineering spaces. I’ve managed and built out IT for a small town (I had a budget as a high school student), figured out how to safely and securely take a tax firm into the cloud (in the mid-2000s, before remote work was a way of life), and created repeatable patterns to deploy servers and workstations in support of creating CCDs, ASICs, and FPGAs in the national interest. I built a Linux-based platform for running some controller code that is allegedly still in use. In general, I’m not afraid to roll up my sleeves and write some code if it makes sense.

At Threat Stack I created a whole bunch of security and operations tooling for a SaaS based security startup (many of which are on this site), deployed centralized IAM, learned how to run ES and Kafka, helped link cloud spend to unit economics, and worked on an acquisition. And in my last role at F5 I sponsored and contributed to building a telemetry collection pipeline in use by products you’ve probably heard of if you’ve balanced load, and managed a team of 9 senior+ ICs. I’ve also regularly worked on conferences for my field - first LISA, and now SREcon.

My skill set is not for every organization – but if you think it’d be a fit for yours, I’d love to meet up and chat about what you’re building, the team you’re building it with, and how I might help 🎉