Gavin Patton
Software Engineer at Puppet
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Patton is a software engineer at Puppet with five years’ experience building CI/CD pipelines, automated virtual appliances, and secure network environments. He blends hands-on development in Python, C and Java with practical DevOps and cybersecurity expertise, having both attacked and defended isolated networks. His background includes research-focused work at ECIT’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies and a 1st class Master’s in Physics from Queen’s University Belfast, reflecting strong analytical foundations. At Puppet he’s progressed from associate to engineer, contributing to production-grade tooling for infrastructure automation. Gavin is committed to continuous learning and enjoys applying scientific rigor to secure, repeatable software delivery. An atypical detail: his profile combines deep systems thinking from physics with real-world adversarial security experience.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, 1st Class Honours, Master's degree, Physics, 1st Class Honours at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (120)
htaccess10
dsc10
puppet10
ntp10
sdk10
httpd10
pdk10
concatenation10
apt10
giphy10
keystore10
shortest-path10
rspec-puppet10
jar9
bolt9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet-lint-check_unsafe_interpolations
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:17 reviews, 25 PRs, 42 pushes in 10 months
GSPatton/auth-client
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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