Patrick Gardella
Senior Vice President Of Technology Chief Technology Officer at Saint Peter's Anglican Church
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Gardella is a seasoned technology executive with 26 years of experience leading large-scale cloud, DevOps, and AI/ML transformations across healthcare, life sciences, and enterprise clients. As Senior VP of Technology he has overseen a $200M portfolio and 2,000+ professionals, driving digital reinvention for major medtech, pharma, provider, and payer organizations. He combines strategic M&A execution—integrating acquisitions that added hundreds of people and tens of millions in revenue—with hands-on delivery of regulated cloud platforms, FHIR-based interoperability, and generative AI solutions. A former CIO and CTO who built resilient DevOps pipelines and replaced complex ERP landscapes on time and on budget, he is equally comfortable with board-level strategy and technical architecture. Based in Louisville, he brings an unusual blend of ministry leadership and military intelligence experience, reflecting strong people leadership, ethical judgment, and crisis-tested decision making. He is seeking C-suite opportunities (SVP/CTO/CIO) to shape technology strategy and scale mission-critical innovation.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree MA in Christian Apologetics, Master's Degree MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Intercultural Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Intercultural Studies at Asbury Theological SeminaryBS Computer Science Mathematics, BS Computer Science Mathematics at US Coast Guard Academy
English
Github Skills (200)
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markdown9
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conversational-ai9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
patrickgardella/dotfiles
Sep 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
patrickgardella/chowdown
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Simple recipes in Markdown format
Contributions:82 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 2 months
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