Patrick Armstrong
Senior Software Developer at Planet
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Armstrong is a senior software developer with 17 years of experience building reliable distributed systems, full-stack services, and authentication backends from Vancouver. He currently develops Go-based tile servers and leads a satellite tasking API at Planet, combining operational rigor with product-facing APIs. Patrick has modernized SAML integrations at scale and driven migrations from SOAP to REST, demonstrating an eye for interoperability and legacy modernization. He contributes to open-source tooling for secret management—adding INI support to the widely used sops project—showing attention to secure, practical developer workflows. Passionate about shortening development cycles, improving testing, and diagnosing failures, he balances excitement for new technologies with a focus on solving real user pain. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, reliable solutions that make complex distributed systems maintainable.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Victoria
English, French
Github Skills (8)
secret-management10
go10
ini10
yaml9
json9
encryption8
devops7
security7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
getsops/sops
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to adding support for INI file format within the `sops` project, which is a tool for managing secrets. They implemented functionality to load, encrypt, and emit INI files, alongside modifications in the `edit.go` file to support the new format. The user also modified the metadata handling and flattening scheme for INI files, mirroring the .env implementation. Furthermore, they incorporated testing for the new INI functionality and updated the README to include file types.
golanggcpdevopssecret-managementsecurity
nimbusproject/PhantomWebApp
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:187 commits in 1 year
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoweb-applicationphantom
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