Patrick Deegan
Chief Technical Officer at TeddyBot, Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Deegan is a multidisciplinary technology leader and inventor with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of robotics, AI, and privacy-focused distributed systems, currently serving as CTO of TeddyBot and founder of DAC Technologies. He has architected high-throughput blockchain systems, pioneered Self-Sovereign Identity practices, and designed multiple award-recognized collaborative humanoids (uBot series, Baxter contributions, CORO) that bridge telepresence, VR interfaces, and practical eldercare applications. Patrick combines deep academic credentials (Ph.D. in Robotics) with hands-on prototyping—3D printing, motion capture, and Raspberry Pi networks—to deliver affordable, deployable robotic solutions and experimental health-use cases. He’s equally comfortable briefing C-suite stakeholders on product roadmaps as he is leading 100+ interdisciplinary teams on large-scale interactive art and robotics installations, and holds multiple patents for his work. Notably, his career blends tangible public-facing installations (Tree of Ténéré) with foundational research in digital identity and scalable blockchain micropayments, revealing a rare mix of creative systems design and production-grade engineering.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science - Robotics, Ph.D. Computer Science - Robotics at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at Harvey Mudd CollegeDuluth East High School
Github Skills (20)
adapter10
testing9
ajax9
san9
jasmine9
javascript8
music-generation7
speech-synthesis5
text-to-speech5
audit5
modulation4
vocoder4
voice-conversion3
animation2
react2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IDCubed/karma-jasmine-ajax
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
Karma adapter for Jasmine plugin for faking Ajax responses in your tests.
Contributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
fakingtestingjavascriptadapterjasmine
treeoftenere/Interactivity
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.