Chris Patterson
Summary
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RockstarChris Patterson is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience building cloud-native tooling and Linux-focused developer workflows, currently driving engineering efforts at Microsoft. He brings deep systems and back-end expertise from senior roles at Canonical (Snapcraft/Charmcraft) and hands-on cloud provisioning work in the cloud-init upstream, where he refactored Azure data source code to improve consistency, testing, and reliability. His background blends formal computer engineering training (MS, Syracuse) with long-tenured applied engineering at AIS and early systems work at the Air Force Research Laboratory, giving him strength in secure, production-grade systems. Known for pragmatic refactors and cross-network compatibility fixes, he pairs architectural thinking with meticulous debugging and test-driven changes. Based in upstate New York, he favors contributions that reduce operational friction for cloud instance provisioning and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
datasources10
azure10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
datasource10
python10
networking10
testing9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 reviews, 113 PRs, 265 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on refactoring the Azure data source code within the cloud-init repository. Their contributions included removing unused code related to the agent command and making it consistent across various network configurations. They also improved the structure, implemented new features, and provided bug fixes for the Azure data source which helps in the provisioning of cloud instances. The user has demonstrated experience in debugging and testing the changes by updating and refactoring code in tests.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
cjp256/azurelinux
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 12 branches, 181 tags in 2 years 9 months
vmsapplianceslinux-oshyper-vlinux
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