Pat Wright
Advocate
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPat Wright is a database-focused technology advocate and consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, tuning, and managing large-scale RDBMS and data platforms. He has led and built DBA teams across startups and enterprise environments, operationalizing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server fleets while driving performance tuning, replication, backup/restore automation, and data warehouse/ETL work. As President of Utah Geek Events and a longtime volunteer with PASS, he cultivates local tech communities and runs free events that draw hundreds, reflecting a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day engineering. Currently consulting and serving as an Advocate at Redgate, Pat blends practical architecture recommendations (including hardware guidance) with deep T-SQL expertise and modern big-data tool experience like Spark, HBase, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. A pragmatic problem solver, he often pairs infrastructure automation (Terraform/Powershell) with audit-ready restore testing to make systems both faster and more reliable.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
None Information Systems, None Information Systems at Snow College
Github Skills (27)
rest-api8
api8
rest8
swagger8
nuget7
swagger-ui7
openapi7
css6
javascript6
redoc5
single-page5
open-source5
dotnet5
ruby4
react-typescript4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jameswrightrg/spike-graphical-query-bar
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 6 days
jameswrightrg/mslearn-tailspin-spacegame-web
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Code used in Microsoft Learn modules to support Azure DevOps
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
azuremicrosoftazure-devopsdevops
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