Jamie Pate
Director, DevOps And Tools at Fortinet
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJamie Pate is a seasoned DevOps and tools leader with 15 years of experience, currently directing DevOps and tooling at Fortinet from Vancouver. He combines deep hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Concourse's git-resource and the Godot game engine—with strategic leadership in shipping reliable CI/CD and infrastructure solutions. Jamie’s work on git-resource shows careful attention to secure key handling, Gerrit review workflows, and Docker/GitHub Actions pipelines, while his Godot fixes reflect an uncommon fluency in rendering, physics, and performance debugging. He also brings entrepreneurial breadth from long-running roles as lead programmer and partner at small tech shops, bridging product needs and engineering delivery. Colleagues rely on him to tame complex build and release systems and to translate low-level performance fixes into production stability.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
git10
github-ci10
docker10
c-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
dockers10
cicd10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
githubaction-workflow10
debug9
godot9
javascript9
debugging9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/git-resource
May 2021 - Sep 2021
tracks commits in a branch of a Git repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jamie's commits focus on enhancing the `git-resource` project, a Git repository tracking tool, through various improvements. They implemented features to support passphrase-protected private keys, optimizing the handling of sensitive information like credentials and keys. Additionally, they added functionality to enable more flexible Git workflows by allowing the configuration of a `refs_prefix` for pushing changes, which is essential for Gerrit Reviews. They are responsible for setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker.
commitsgit-repositorytracks
godotengine/godot
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 3 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to bug fixes and performance improvements within the Godot Engine. They addressed issues related to Javascript performance in the display module, game window responsiveness, scene loading, and physics engine crashes. They also fixed rendering related issues specifically regarding lightmaps in headless mode and GL compatibility. Overall, the user demonstrated a strong understanding of the engine's internal workings and rendering pipeline.
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