Bob Patterson
Director Of Engineering at Farther
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolBob Patterson is a Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, highly reliable backend systems for hyper-growth consumer and enterprise platforms. He has a proven track record leading datastore and reliability transformations at companies like Tumblr, Peloton, and Code Climate—rearchitecting platforms, cutting costs materially, and eliminating recurring outages. Equally comfortable in C-suite conversations and deep in the codebase, he builds teams, playbooks, and automation (including a MySQL toolkit for 250+ servers) that let organizations avoid firefighting and scale predictably. Bob’s strength is turning ambiguous, high-risk scaling problems into repeatable engineering processes while mentoring junior engineers in disciplined problem-solving. Based in New Jersey, he blends pragmatic cost-conscious engineering with strategic architecture to prepare systems for sudden user surges. An uncommon detail: he repeatedly delivers both large-scale cost savings and dramatic performance gains by aligning people, process, and datastore choices rather than relying on single-point technology bets.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Systems, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Systems at Mercyhurst University
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Github Skills (61)
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codeclimate8
facebook8
mysql7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bobpattersonjr/sshrc
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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bobpattersonjr/nans
Aug 2010 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 12 years 2 months
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