Patrick Bakke
Principal Software Engineer at Superhuman
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Bakke is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience leading full-stack rewrites and delivering pragmatic, scalable systems for product-focused teams. Currently at Superhuman after senior engineering and tech lead roles at Rocketmiles and Jellyvision, he has driven large migrations—from legacy PHP to Node.js/GraphQL—and simplified complex domain models into reusable abstractions. He combines hands-on architecture and mentorship, growing engineers from junior to senior while working across Ruby, Python, PHP, and modern AWS services. Based in the Chicago area with a BS in Mathematics from UIUC, Patrick brings strong product empathy from client-facing roles and an appetite for transparency around compensation equity. Notably, he pairs technical breadth with a readiness to advocate loudly for fair pay, inviting peers to compare numbers and push for change.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Mathematics, Bachelors of Science Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (75)
cms10
web-application10
javascript10
html10
electron10
ghost10
jamstack10
nodejs10
audience10
css10
headless-cms10
chrome10
journalism10
openlibrary9
js9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
superhuman/zen
Apr 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:24 reviews, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
patrickdbakke/gabor
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 11 months
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