Pat Mcilroy
Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer at Salesforce
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPat Mcilroy is a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 18 years of hands-on experience building and securing production systems across C/C++, Python, PHP, and Linux environments. Currently at Salesforce, he brings a strong infrastructure and DevOps pedigree from Platform9, Kabam and earlier consulting work, coupling low-level systems expertise (x86 asm, C++03/11) with practical web/backend skills and Django-era Python. He’s contributed to open-source projects such as StepMania, fixing cross-platform build and runtime issues, showing attention to edge cases and cross-OS reliability. Known for marrying security consulting with developer-facing automation, Pat often operates at the intersection of hard systems programming and scalable operational tooling.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Indiana University of PennsylvaniaBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
2d-game10
lua9
build-system8
autoconf8
x117
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stepmania/stepmania
Aug 2011 - Jul 2014
Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pat contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the StepMania project. Their work included resolving issues related to foreground animations, modifying X11 window behavior, and addressing edge cases when loading step data from song files. They also fixed a build issue related to the absence of the FFmpeg library. The user's changes involved modifications to C++, Lua, and configuration files related to the build process.
lualinux-windowsgamewindowsrhythm-game
spigwitmer/golang_struct_builder
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
IDA 7.0+ script that auto-generates structs and interfaces from runtime metadata found in golang binaries
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
golangstructsruntimebinariesgolang-binaries
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