Pat Woods
Cloud Support Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPat Woods is a Cloud Support Engineer with a decade of experience helping customers get the most from IaaS and cloud compute services, currently supporting advanced Compute offerings at Akamai after years on Linode’s support teams. A career-changer from art education, he blends creative problem-solving and strong communication to translate technical issues into human-centered solutions—skills honed volunteering with Code for Philly and Neighborhood Bike Works. He’s a subject matter expert in backup services and comfortable across networking, Kubernetes, managed databases, DNS, incident response, and system administration. Pat values the people side of technology and believes durable solutions come from collaboration between builders and users. Outside of work he’s a practicing parent, maker, and returning visual artist who brings curiosity and empathy to both technical support and community engagement.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Art Education, Bachelor of Science (BS) Art Education at Temple UniversityCertificate in Web Design Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Certificate in Web Design Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Moore College of Art and Design
Github Skills (17)
react-redux10
react-router-v410
akamai10
linode10
cloud-manager9
tanstack-react-query9
typescript9
tanstack-router8
api6
vote6
finance3
playlists2
javascript2
react2
spotify2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wat-Poods/docs
Apr 2019 - Oct 2023
Linode guides and tutorials.
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
linode
Wat-Poods/manager
May 2022 - Apr 2023
The Linode Cloud Manager
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
availabilityitilcloud-managerlinodecloud
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