Patrick Hayes
Software Engineer at Airtable
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Hayes is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building developer infrastructure and full-stack systems across startups and major platforms, currently at Airtable after a Senior Staff role at YouTube. He co-founded and served as CTO of SigOpt, inventing its patented distributed optimization platform and scaling engineering teams through acquisition by Intel. Patrick’s background spans backend, frontend, and ML research work from Foursquare and Bloomberg to internships at Facebook, reflecting a rare blend of product-focused engineering and low-level systems expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has improved both Python server-side tooling (beaker) and React linting rules to better developer experience and compatibility. A Waterloo double-honours grad, he combines rigorous technical foundations with hands-on leadership in shipping test and developer infrastructure used by thousands.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Winter 2015, Winter 2015 at Y CombinatorBMath, Computer Science/Pure Mathematics, Double Honours, 90%, BMath, Computer Science/Pure Mathematics, Double Honours, 90% at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
develop10
data-serialization10
eslint10
lint10
python10
react10
jsx10
serialization10
cookie9
ecmascript9
testing9
json8
pickle8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
React-specific linting rules for ESLint
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 53 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the `eslint-plugin-react` repository, focusing on enhancing and fixing rules related to React component styling and code structure. Their work included implementing fixes for the `--fix` functionality within the `jsx-closing-bracket-location` rule, which improves the automatic code formatting capabilities. Additionally, they added new configurations, such as the "all" configuration, to enable all rules and added a new rule for requiring HTML entities to be escaped. The contributions reflect a focus on improving code quality and developer experience within the React ecosystem.
reactlintlintereslintjavascript
bbangert/beaker
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
WSGI middleware for sessions and caching
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the backend of the `beaker` repository, focusing on session management and serialization. They implemented custom serializer objects, enhancing the flexibility of session data storage. Their work included fixes for Python 3 compatibility, improvements to cookie handling, and updates to the session tests. They also worked on handling invalid signatures.
wsgi-middlewarecachingcachewsgimiddleware
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