Pat Tressel
Volunteer Engineer And Mentor at Volunteer Technical Communities: Code for America, OpenCrisis, WebPlatform, GWoB, RHoK,...
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPat Tressel is a veteran software engineer and volunteer mentor with 15+ years of experience spanning OS internals, web search, machine learning, embedded systems, and humanitarian web services. Based in Seattle, he combines deep systems-level expertise (kernel and virtual memory work at Digital/Cray and TOPS-20 experience) with practical hands-on robotics and Arduino embedded development for education and research. A long-time contributor and product/systems steward for the Sahana Eden humanitarian platform, he has improved backend reliability, database migrations, and tooling used in disaster response. Pat also mentors Coursera students and guides student teams in autonomous-vehicle and maker projects, blending teaching, git/DevOps rescue, and electronics troubleshooting. Notably, his work bridges high-performance systems thinking with civic tech impact—shipping fixes that matter in crisis mapping, playsourcing, and low-cost robotics education.
15 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonCourseraCalifornia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
e-mail10
web2py10
mailer10
python10
emailjs10
scheduler10
github9
sql9
database-design9
git-repository9
git9
datatables8
datatable8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sahana/eden
Jan 2012 - Oct 2014
Sahana Eden is an Open Source Humanitarian Platform which can be used to provide solutions for Disaster Management, Development, and Environmental Management sectors.. Please sign CLA when submitting pull requests: http://bit.ly/SSF-eCLA
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Pat primarily contributed to the back-end of the Sahana Eden platform, making changes to database interactions, configuration files, and the scheduler. Key contributions include modifications to database string retrieval, improvements to inbound email handling, and the introduction of a tool for debugging scheduler tasks. The user also worked on adjusting the data table parameters and converting UTF-16 js file to UTF-8. These changes suggest a focus on improving platform functionality and developer experience.
http-requestspythonsectorsssfdisaster
ptressel/elcano
Mar 2015 - Dec 2018
Autonomous mobile robot based on a recumbent trike.
Contributions:25 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 8 months
roboticsautonomousrosrobot
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