Patrick Naughton is a seasoned software leader with a career spanning three decades, blending hands-on engineering with executive leadership across startups and global enterprises. He is currently Principal at Cedar Fig LLC in Glendale, California, guiding software development for retail and music industry clients. Previously, he led platform software at Avanade as VP of Platform Software Group for over a decade and held senior roles at Azaleos and Hedgehog Software, delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions. His career began at Sun Microsystems as a Sr. Staff Engineer and includes leadership at Starwave as President and CTO, illustrating a rare combination of deep technical craft and strategic vision. He holds a BS from Clarkson University, and his modern stack expertise spans TypeScript, HTML5, JavaScript (ES6+), AWS, Azure, React, Mantine, TanStack, and Blueprint, underscoring a cloud-first, front-end–driven development approach.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Clarkson University
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Patrick Naughton - Chief Technology Officer at Cedar Fig LLC