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Top SchoolPatrick Easters is a Staff Field Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and observability solutions. He has driven large-scale deployments and troubleshooting across enterprises—from designing resilient AWS/GCP architectures and Kubernetes platforms to implementing Prometheus-based monitoring for 16,000+ Windows VMs and supporting $2M ARR accounts. Patrick blends deep systems engineering with product-focused tooling, having led secure cloud identity, PKI, and reverse-proxy initiatives at Red Hat and created automation that extracts business metrics from operational data. Known as a tinkerer and pragmatic problem-solver, he excels at bridging engineering, support, and product teams to reduce customer friction and ship reliable systems. Based in Raleigh, he pairs technical breadth across networking, SDN, and observability with a practical mindset shaped by early infrastructure and startup experience.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electical Engineering, Electical Engineering at North Carolina State University