Summary
Patrick Forristal is a DevOps and cloud infrastructure specialist with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient systems across enterprise environments. He has led cloud engineering and systems architecture efforts at JLL and HFF, and now shapes roadmaps and platform strategy as a DevOps Specialist III at DMI. His projects include large-scale Office 365 migrations for nearly a thousand users, SD-WAN deployments to boost remote resiliency, and targeted cloud workload migrations that balance cost, performance, and risk. Patrick blends day-to-day operational rigor with architecture-level planning, keeping teams flexible to adopt emerging technologies. Based in Houston, he pairs deep systems engineering roots (network and systems admin roles dating back to 2004) with a knack for pragmatic, migratory transformations that minimize disruption. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he moves between strategic roadmap work and tactical execution, ensuring designs are both future-ready and immediately operable.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer