Pat Clark
Data Engineer
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPat Clark is a data engineer with eight years of experience building reliable data pipelines and tooling across academia, nonprofit, and enterprise environments. Currently at Duke University after a stint at the American Red Cross, Pat blends software engineering roots from Avalara (SDET → Software Engineer) with hands-on operational experience from earlier roles in NOC and IT. A former Marine with technical training in ground radio repair and a BS from Oregon State, he brings discipline and a systems-oriented mindset to data challenges. Known as a "data wrangler," he focuses on turning messy operational data into actionable insights and resilient ETL systems. Unexpectedly, his background in behavioral health and communications informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to data products and stakeholder collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Appalachian State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Oregon State University
Github Skills (12)
avalara9
amazon-ec28
docker-container8
amazon7
communications5
aws5
agent5
docker4
elastic4
elasticsearch4
kubernetes3
go3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
pat-clark-avalara/developer-dot
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Content for developer-dot
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 16 days
dot
Avalara/Communications-Developer-Content
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Avalara Communications Content for Developers
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
for-developersavalaracommunications
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