Patrick Bates
Owner at Cullman IT
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Bates is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13+ years of professional experience and two decades running his own IT firms, currently owning Cullman IT and co-founding Project Nami to run WordPress on SQL Server. He blends hands-on skills in SQL Server, Visual Basic, PHP, Cisco IOS and WordPress with data platform expertise recognized by a past Microsoft MVP award and MS Silver Partner status. Patrick leads strategic network planning, custom software development, and technology consulting while also serving as mayor of Berlin, Alabama, demonstrating civic leadership alongside technical stewardship. His background includes long-term leadership roles from IT director to lead developer, and a practical Computer Science education from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Notably, his open-source work on Project Nami bridges Windows/SQL ecosystems with the PHP/WordPress world, solving a niche interoperability challenge.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
George C Wallace State Community College-HancevilleComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Github Skills (46)
shopify-api10
microsoft10
microsoft-sql10
wordpress10
plug10
authenticate10
sql-server10
trellis10
sql10
virtualbox10
microsoft-sql-server10
shopify9
net-library9
fat-free-framework9
eve-online9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectNami/ProjectNamiCacheLoader
Mar 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
ProjectNami/projectnami-blob-cache
Apr 2014 - Nov 2022
Plug-in for ProjectNami and WordPress which caches full-page output to Azure Blob Storage
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 8 months
full-pagevagrantazure-blobblob-storageblob
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