Patrick Downing
Senior Manager, Secure Access Engineering at NorthSec
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Downing is a Senior Manager in Secure Access Engineering with a decade of experience building and scaling global security teams and resilient identity, cryptographic, and directory services for high-stakes enterprises. He blends hands-on technical depth—from SOC operations to product ownership—with strategic leadership at organizations like Morgan Stanley and GitHub, and co-chaired emerging technologies at The Linux Foundation. An active practitioner in quantum computing, CTFs, and gamified learning, he contributes to Qiskit tutorials to clarify quantum concepts for practitioners. Based in Montreal, he pairs an MS in Information Security with practical cloud, DevOps, and AI/ML experience to drive innovative security programs. Notably, his work bridges cutting-edge research (quantum cryptography and QML) with production-grade access engineering and mentoring the next generation of security talent.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Information Security, Masters of Science, Information Security at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Oakland University
English, French
Github Skills (5)
user-manual10
quantum-computing10
qiskit10
documentation10
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Qiskit/qiskit-tutorials
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
A collection of Jupyter notebooks showing how to use the Qiskit SDK
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Qiskit tutorials repository by correcting typos and updating documentation. Their contributions included fixing qubit ordering errors, correcting image discrepancies, and revising explanations of quantum gate operations. They also updated the documentation on deprecated gates, providing replacement code examples. These edits enhance the clarity and accuracy of the tutorials, making them more accessible to users.
quantum-computingsdknotebooksquantum-programming-languagejupyter
padraignix/quantum-challenges
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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