Summary
Patrick Beeson is an engineering manager and full-stack software engineer in Portland, Oregon with over a decade of experience building and scaling web applications across healthcare, fintech, higher ed, and media. He blends hands-on technical leadership—Python, Java, React, PostgreSQL, and AWS—with product-minded discipline, having driven high-velocity release practices (700+ releases in 2025) while keeping change-failure rates low. Patrick has a track record of turning around troubled integrations, architecting credentialing and onboarding systems that materially cut costs and churn, and leading teams through acquisition and due diligence. A committed people leader and educator, he coaches engineers’ career growth, teaches collegiate courses, and experiments with AI tooling to boost team output. Outside work he’s an avid climber and endurance athlete, often drawing parallels between route-finding on rock and navigating complex technical trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
None (transferred) Undecided (transferred), None (transferred) Undecided (transferred) at Fort Lewis College
Bachelor of Science Public Relations, Bachelor of Science Public Relations at Appalachian State University
Master of Arts Journalism, Master of Arts Journalism at The University of Alabama