Patrick Christopher
Cloud Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Christopher is a cloud software engineer with 12 years of experience building automation, large-scale data pipelines, and intelligence systems for enterprises and cloud platforms. He has led platform and security-focused initiatives at Salesforce’s Hyperforce and now enables AI workloads on a hosted Kubernetes platform at NVIDIA, bringing deep expertise in cloud account provisioning, platform hardening, and low-maintenance automation. Patrick is pragmatic about operational sustainability—frequently designing solutions that reduce toil, improve deployability, and stand up across multi-cloud environments. He is an active open-source contributor to Kubernetes, having updated core Go components and test suites for production-grade container scheduling and observability. Comfortable as both technical leader and hands-on engineer, he blends cross-organizational design review experience with a history of shipping resilient data systems. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC with a knack for turning complex cloud security and data requirements into practical, auditable automation.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
testing9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
cicd7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 30 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the `kubernetes/kubernetes` repository by modifying Go code within the `cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/es-image` directory and the `test/instrumentation` directory. Their commits focused on updating dependencies, using current method signatures, and modifying functionality to allow anonymous access to Kibana. Further contributions included adding and fixing unit tests, as well as addressing review comments and path resolving within the test suite.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
samsung-cnct/kraken
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
[DEPRECATED] cli for kraken-lib
Contributions:8 releases, 42 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 6 months
krakencli
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