Patrick Wyatt
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Wyatt is a veteran game industry leader and founder with more than three decades shaping AAA franchises and building studios from the ground up. He held senior leadership roles including VP of R&D at Blizzard, CTO of NCsoft, COO of En Masse, and founding president of ArenaNet, driving design and development for iconic series such as Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Guild Wars. Equally hands-on, he has authored code across networking, graphics, AI, tools, and online services, and has run platform and data-center operations, security, analytics, and ecommerce for large-scale publishing. After a storied career leading teams and shipping best-selling games, he is returning to the trenches to launch One More Game, a new venture in Bellevue, WA. He also brings practical DevOps and infrastructure chops, exemplified by contributions to the Sous-chefs/Consul project, where he enhanced runit integration and service reliability. Patrick holds a BS in Computer Science from UCLA and blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical breadth across startups, services, and production-grade gaming.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
consul10
runit10
chef-solo10
automations10
automation10
dev-ops10
devops10
go4
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the automation and configuration of the Consul service, a core component within the repository's focus on chef cookbooks. Their work includes adding support for different init styles ('runit'), refactoring user and group creation, and improving the service's integration with runit. Key changes involve modifying service configurations, templates, and attributes to ensure proper service startup, logging, and performance tuning, reflected in the use of `chpst` and `svlogd`.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
webcoyote/coho
Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 10 months
cppc-plus-plusheader-onlycpp17cpp11
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