Jim Patterson
Software Engineer at Cognos Inc. (retired)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Patterson is a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years of experience building 4GLs, BI products, and OLAP/MDX-style calculation engines, most notably on the Powerhouse and Cognos product families that evolved into IBM’s enterprise offerings. He has deep systems-level expertise across C/C++, Java, assembly and legacy languages, and has ported and architected large codebases across Vax/VMS, Unix/Linux, Windows and mainframe environments. As a software architect at Cognos and later IBM, he led adaptations of planning software to new OLAP engines (TM1) and helped integrate multiple acquisitions into cohesive product lines. Now retired in Ottawa, he prefers remote, open-source-focused projects that serve a community purpose and could be tempted back for the right mission. An alum of Waterloo’s co-op CS program with a later interest in political economy, he brings institutional product knowledge and a practical, historically informed perspective on software evolution.
10 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Batchelor of Arts, Political Economy, Batchelor of Arts, Political Economy at University of AthabascaB Math (Co-op), Computer Science, B Math (Co-op), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (79)
dlna10
qt10
duktape10
audio10
stream10
ofx10
music10
mp310
inotify10
ogg10
eagle10
player10
flac10
safari9
linux9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SheamusPatt/musicbrainz-isrcsubmit
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
script to submit ISRCs from disc to musicbrainz
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 24 pushes in 1 month
musicbrainzdiscsubmit
SheamusPatt/picard
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
MusicBrainz Picard audio file tagger
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pythonpicardaudio-filemusicbrainzmp3
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