Patrick Flickinger
Principal Software Engineer, AI Solutions & Development at The Walt Disney Company
Greater Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Flickinger is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI solutions and systems architecture, with two decades of hands-on experience taking complex data-driven projects from concept to production. He has led resilient, customer-centered engineering across industries—from Microsoft and Disney to government and non-profits—building scalable AI platforms, real-time telemetry systems, and IoT/edge ML pipelines that have delivered measurable environmental and operational impact. Patrick blends deep systems knowledge (database engines, high-throughput pub/sub, scheduling) with applied AI work such as generative agents and character AI at Disney, and conservation and climate-focused ML at Microsoft’s AI for Good. He is as comfortable presenting distilled architectures to executives as he is mentoring students and running workshops, reflecting a rare combination of technical depth and communication skill. A penchant for pragmatic innovation shows in projects that reduced monitoring latency from hours to seconds and in production systems that inform policy and conservation efforts.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (55)
api-platform10
detectors10
earth10
classifiers10
api10
computer-vision10
api-framework10
asynchronous9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
hosting9
python8
scalable8
inference8
infrastructure8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AIforEarth-API-Development
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
This is an API Framework for AI models to be hosted locally or on the AI for Earth API Platform (https://github.com/microsoft/AIforEarth-API-Platform).
Contributions:76 commits, 82 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 6 months
apiapi-platformhostedearthlocally
microsoft/AIforEarth-API-Platform
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
The AI for Earth API Platform is a distributed infrastructure designed to provide a secure, scalable, and customizable API hosting, designed to handle the needs of long-running/asynchronous machine learning model inference. It is to be used with the AI For Earth API Framework (https://github.com/microsoft/AIforEarth-API-Development).
Contributions:27 commits, 25 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pythonmicrosofthostingsecuredata-science
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