Pat Myron
United States
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Top SchoolPat Myron is a cloud-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening infrastructure tooling at AWS, Microsoft Azure, and startups like Stedi. He has deep expertise in CloudFormation, IaC, and validation tooling—contributing significant fixes and feature support to high-profile open-source projects such as troposphere, cfn-lint, the CloudFormation CLI, and the AWS CDK. Pat’s work spans backend engineering and cloud engineering, from adding region/availability-zone accuracy to improving schema validation and IDE autocompletion for template developers. He blends production-grade engineering at hyperscalers with practical startup delivery, and his GitHub history shows a knack for meticulous spec-correction and documentation improvements that reduce real-world operator friction.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Upper St Clair High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
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Github Skills (56)
ec10
visual-studio-code10
json10
schema-validation10
python10
json-schema10
data-engineering10
typescript10
troposphere10
cloud-infrastructure10
validation10
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aws-cloudformation10
amazon-ec210
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit allows you to author your own resource providers and modules that can be used by CloudFormation.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2 releases, 83 reviews, 32 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pat primarily contributed to improving the CloudFormation CLI tool, focusing on validation and schema improvements. They addressed common resource schema issues, including invalid patterns, non-ASCII characters, and incorrect min/max constraints. Additionally, they updated dependencies, increased test timeouts, and refined documentation for better usability.
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aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
CloudFormation Linter
Role in this project:Backend & Cloud Engineer
Backend & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 releases, 186 reviews, 201 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pat primarily contributed to the cfn-lint project by adding and updating availability zones for different AWS regions, primarily by modifying the `helpers.py` file and updating the list of valid zones. They also fixed duplicate entries and addressed issues related to validation of CIDR blocks, incorporating changes to parameter validation rules. The user further made changes to the resource specifications and updated the template checks to align with new features and updates.
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