Patrick Hereford
AVP, Software Engineering at Travelers
Bedford, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Hereford is an engineering leader and MBA who blends business strategy with hands-on software delivery across 13 years, currently serving as AVP, Software Engineering at Travelers after Corvus Insurance's acquisition. He has repeatedly scaled teams (from 3 to 27 engineers), built underwriting and data pipelines that dramatically improved operational efficiency, and shipped web platforms using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and Elixir. Patrick’s background in marketing and market research informs product decisions and cross-functional partnerships, enabling him to align tech roadmaps with go-to-market needs. He has held multiple CTO roles at startups and led platform and SSO initiatives, demonstrating both startup agility and enterprise discipline. Based in Bedford, NH, he pairs an MIT engineering degree with an MBA from Boston College, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and commercial insight. Behind the scenes he often engineers tooling and internal bots to surface engineering bottlenecks and improve team productivity.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMBA Entrepreneurial Management, MBA Entrepreneurial Management at Boston College Carroll School of ManagementHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at St. Augustine
Spanish
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Github Skills (115)
genstage10
broadway10
api9
ruby-client9
apollo-client9
relay9
blueprint9
concurrent9
elixir9
absinthe9
salesforce-rest-api9
data-processing8
data-ingestion8
api-client8
graphiql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phereford/d3api
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 2 months
apiapi-wrapperdiablo-3rubyruby-api-wrapper
phereford/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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