Patrick Flick is an Enterprise Architect with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and consolidating enterprise IT infrastructure, specializing in storage, data protection, virtualization, and networking. He has led data protection strategy and implementation at Dover Corporation and built cross-vendor storage and backup solutions across EMC, IBM, NetApp, Infinidat and Veritas ecosystems. Comfortable from OS-level tuning (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) to SAN switching and cloud backup, he blends deep operational expertise with architecture-level planning. He contributes to open-source tooling as a back-end developer on goatools, showing an ability to translate domain-specific problems into maintainable code and tests. Known for pragmatic consolidation projects and migration planning, he often uncovers storage and backup efficiencies that reduce risk and cost. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he pairs consulting experience with long-term enterprise program leadership.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at Indiana University Indianapolis
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `goatools` Python library, which handles Gene Ontology (GO) terms. The user implemented a `map2slim` method from the GO-perl package and included corresponding tests. The commits show the user fixing formatting issues and making adjustments to the `obo_parser.py`, `go_enrichment.py`, and `mapslim.py` files, indicating active involvement in refining the library's core functionality and usability.
Contributions:200 commits, 11 pushes, 4 issues in 2 years 11 months
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Patrick Flick - Enterprise Architect at Dover Corporation