Patrick East
Software Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick East is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems, currently contributing to Apple from Seattle. He brings strong backend and systems expertise across Go, Python, Java, C++, and Bash, with a history of driving architecture, CI/CD, and product-facing storage and infrastructure features at Pure Storage and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As an Open Policy Agent maintainer at Styra and a significant contributor to the popular open-source OPA project, he has implemented CIDR helpers, optimized rule indexing, and added graceful server shutdowns that improve network policy enforcement. Patrick’s background spans embedded IoT work through enterprise cloud services, and he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska FairbanksBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (12)
network-security10
gpo10
enforcement10
go10
policies10
test-automation9
webassembly9
build-automation8
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 154 reviews, 393 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed significantly to the OPA project by implementing and extending functionality related to network security and policy enforcement. Their work included the addition of new built-in CIDR helpers for IPv4 and IPv6, replacing deprecated functions, and optimizing rule indexing. They also focused on code enhancements, including bug fixes and the development of a graceful server shutdown mechanism, indicating a strong focus on the backend aspects and infrastructure of the project.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
patrick-east/opa
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
An open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Contributions:4 releases, 33 PRs, 823 pushes in 1 year 8 months
policyopasecuritypolicy-enginepurpose
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