Patrick Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at Kickstarter
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building reliable web systems at SoundCloud, Kickstarter, and now GitHub. He brings a pragmatic focus on testability and automation—demonstrated by refactoring and adding unit and integration tests to the popular actions/labeler GitHub Action—to ensure code is maintainable and trustworthy. His unusual blend of computer science, architecture and creative writing gives him a multidisciplinary perspective on system design and clear technical communication. Known for pragmatic craftsmanship and a dry sense of humor ("Computer Tolerator"), he consistently prioritizes developer experience and production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Brown UniversityCDisco, Architecture, CDisco, Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of DesignCreative Writing, Architectural History, Creative Writing, Architectural History at Oberlin College
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
typescrpt10
typescript310
typesc10
sorbet10
type-check10
rubygems10
testing10
typescript10
capybara10
typescript210
implement10
ruby10
language-extension10
mfiles10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
actions/labeler
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
An action for automatically labelling pull requests
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 16 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the project by adding unit and integration tests to the action. They refactored the code to enable unit testing, creating a separate module to isolate core functions. The user implemented tests for key functionalities, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the action's reliability and correctness. They also added tests to cover the action as a whole.
pull-requestslabelling
pje/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Feb 2023
~/.*
Contributions:391 commits, 1 PR, 262 pushes in 10 years 9 months
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