Joe Patterson
Principal Engineer at Westpac
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Patterson is a Principal Engineer based in Queensland, Australia with over 20 years in technology and a track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and low-maintenance systems. He blends hands-on engineering and platform leadership across consulting and product environments, from founding V2 Digital to senior roles at Contino, Domino’s Digital, and currently Westpac. Joe moves fluidly between frontend, backend and architecture, having driven modular web/API architectures and custom identity solutions that materially improved deployment velocity and security. An open-source contributor, he improved Auth0 integration in the widely used Backstage developer portal to resolve session and audience configuration challenges. He pairs a commercial mindset (marketing degree) with deep technical craft, favoring pragmatic, outcome-focused approaches that reduce operational burden.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Eton CollegeBsc (Hons) 2.1 Marketing with Honours, eMarketing, Bsc (Hons) 2.1 Marketing with Honours, eMarketing at Newcastle University
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
typescripts10
oauth10
typescript-types10
auth10
passportjs9
backstage9
user-authentication9
authentication9
nodejs8
portal8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 29 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the Auth0 integration within the Backstage project. Their work involved modifying the Auth0 provider to allow for audience configuration, updating the strategy to avoid session issues, and incorporating necessary state management. The commits also include formatting changes and updates to the provider for review feedback.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
dominos-pizza-enterprises/adyen-react-native
Jun 2019 - Aug 2023
Adyen SDK for React Native
Contributions:19 PRs, 38 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 2 months
reactreact-nativeandroidsdkadyen
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