Patrick Creech is a pragmatic software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a BS in Computer Science, currently building backend systems at Red Hat from Greenville, NC. He has a strong full‑stack and systems background—designing database‑driven web apps, XML/SOAP/REST services, and front ends with HTML/JavaScript—while shipping production tools in C#, PHP, VB, Python, C++ and more. His career spans enterprise integrations, middleware and reporting platforms, and hands‑on infrastructure work such as Linux iSCSI storage and Active Directory design, reflecting an ability to bridge development and operations. At scale projects like the open-source Pulp platform he contributed backend improvements and schema migrations, showing comfort with community codebases and careful data migrations. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, practical design patterns, and turning messy data sources into reliable, auditable reports. He combines legacy system fluency with modern backend practices, making him effective at stabilizing and evolving long‑running applications.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at East Carolina University
⛔️Pulp2 is EOL! ⛔️Pulp 2 platform code, including the server and base admin and consumer clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:256 commits, 127 PRs, 204 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's commits focus on implementing and modifying back-end functionality within the Pulp platform. They implemented changes to permissions and logins, allowing the use of periods in these fields. They updated the schema for role permissions and added code to handle that schema change. Additionally, the user refactored code related to content uploads and repository counts, and made improvements to database migrations.
Helpful deployment scripts for Foreman and Katello
Contributions:10 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 2 months
devopsdeploymentansiblekatellohelpful
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