Chris Patterson
Chief Executive Officer at MassTransit
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Patterson is a seasoned software leader and founder with over three decades designing and scaling enterprise distributed systems, best known as the creator and primary maintainer of MassTransit, a widely adopted .NET service bus with 150+ million downloads. As CEO of Massient and founder of Loosely Coupled, he helps organizations accelerate development velocity and reliability through open-source software, commercial support, and platform modernization. His career includes 24 years at McKesson rising to Enterprise Architect, where he led technology strategy and high-volume transaction systems across healthcare. A hands-on engineer and back-end developer, he contributed foundational work to MassTransit’s state machine library (Automatonymous), focusing on events, states, serialization and observability. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with deep technical mentorship and a long track record of moving mission-critical systems into production.
18 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
rabbitmq10
state-machine10
dotnet-core10
azure-service-bus10
csharp10
asp-net-core9
exception-handling9
autofac9
lambda9
dependency-injection9
azure9
generics9
netcore9
graph-visualization7
microservices6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MassTransit/Automatonymous
Sep 2011 - Feb 2022
A state machine library for .Net - 100% code - No doodleware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 249 commits, 20 PRs in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on a state machine library for .Net, with commits focusing on foundational classes and features. Their contributions involved adding support for declaring events, states, and activities, along with exception handling capabilities within the state machine. They also refactored and cleaned up code to support serialization and graph visualization.
dotnetstate-machinec-sharp
phatboyg/GreenPipes
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
An asynchronous pipe implementation for the Task Parallel Library
Contributions:130 commits, 18 PRs, 112 pushes in 5 years
asynchronoustask-parallel-library
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