Patrick Healy
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarPatrick Healy is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and networking solutions for Azure, notably driving Kubernetes networking and agent node provisioning work. He has moved between product and engineering roles—Senior Product Manager and Senior Cloud Solution Architect—giving him a rare blend of customer-facing product strategy and hands-on infrastructure engineering. His open-source contributions to Azure/AgentBaker show deep operational expertise in Kubernetes node provisioning, container runtime installation, CNI configuration, and system stability. Based in Bloomington, Illinois, he brings enterprise-grade reliability experience from State Farm and higher-education storage architecture to large-scale cloud services. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking requirements into production-ready, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
cloud-init10
bash10
containerd10
agent10
kubernetes-pods10
scripting9
osdev9
vhd9
vhdx9
macos9
shell9
script9
sh9
microsoft-azure7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AgentBaker
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 41 commits, 35 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the `azure/agentbaker` repository, specifically related to Kubernetes agent node provisioning. Their contributions included modifying shell scripts for container runtime installation and CNI configuration, updating systemd service files, and handling environment variables. They also reverted a log upload feature, indicating involvement in system stability and operational aspects.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
phealy/azure-cli-fzf
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 15 pushes in 20 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.