Keith Patton
Senior Principal Engineer at Serko
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolKeith Patton is a Senior Principal Engineer and technology leader based in Auckland with over two decades of experience founding, scaling, and modernising software businesses and enterprise platforms. He specialises in turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into durable, production-grade cloud and platform architectures, operating at the intersection of engineering, product, and commercial outcomes. As a hands-on architect and former CTO/co-founder, he blends founder-level systems thinking with practical delivery discipline—shaping long-horizon technical direction while staying close to code. His recent work embeds AI-native capabilities into platform engineering and focuses on scalable distributed systems and platform integrity for global SaaS. Notably, he has led migrations and security-compliant platform builds for international events and enterprises, and has a background that spans mobile games acquired by Microsoft through to enterprise Azure PaaS transformations.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Environmental Policy and Management, MSc Environmental Policy and Management at University of HullBA Hons IIi Economics and Philosophy, BA Hons IIi Economics and Philosophy at University of Leedsmethodist college belfast
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Github Skills (29)
azure7
database6
asp-net6
orm6
entity-framework6
azure-devops6
object-oriented-database6
rdbms6
inheritance6
microsoft6
factory6
powershell5
marketplace5
artifacts5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
keithpatton/aks-sample
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 879 commits, 825 pushes in 1 month
keithpatton/eventgridpoc
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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