Patrick Alt
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Alt is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams from Honolulu. He blends deep DevOps and architecture expertise—containerization, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP—with hands-on backend and full-stack delivery, driving platform migrations and CI/CD transformations that enabled startups to land larger clients. Patrick has led teams at Indeed and test.ai, mentored dozens of interns, and architected resilient services that self-heal and auto-scale using RabbitMQ, Redis, and MongoDB. He is a longtime contributor to the Joomla! CMS backend, improving access control and component configuration in a widely used open-source project. Comfortable moving between Python, Java, Go, Swift and C#, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong emphasis on software quality and operational reliability. Beyond code, he’s known for translating technical strategy into training and documentation that accelerates team adoption of modern cloud practices.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik at University of Stuttgart
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
content-management10
back-end-development10
joomla10
mysql9
database-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Dec 2011 - May 2015
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Joomla! CMS back-end, focusing on features related to language overrides, access control, and component configuration. Their work included modifying models, controllers, and views within the administrator component. They also addressed bugs, and implemented features across multiple core areas of the system, enhancing the CMS functionality.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
JoomGallery/BootOne
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 32 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 11 months
bootstrap4responsive-layoutlayoutbootstrapresponsive
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