Patrick Hession
Back End Developer at Tromero
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPatrick Hession is a back-end developer with nine years' experience building scalable cloud-native systems and leading engineering delivery, currently focused on marketplace infrastructure and server orchestration at Tromero. He previously served as Developer Advocate for Seagate's open-source CORTX project, contributing technical documentation that improved onboarding and usability for a high-capacity object storage platform. Skilled in Python, Flask, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, PostgreSQL, Celery and Stripe integrations, he has hands-on experience moving monolithic deployments to dynamic, containerized architectures and running staging environments that mirror production. Patrick also has a history of mentoring and coordinating small teams to ship features ahead of schedule, and he won his company Kubernetes quiz—an anecdote that underscores his practical mastery of orchestration. Based in London and active on GitHub, he blends developer advocacy with deep backend engineering, making complex distributed storage and marketplace systems more accessible to developers.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Leaving Certificate at Ballinrobe Community SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University College Dublin
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Github Skills (11)
open-source10
object-storage10
github10
documentation10
java6
doubly-linked-list6
getopt6
big-o6
dictionary6
jar6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Seagate/cortx
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
CORTX Community Object Storage is 100% open source object storage uniquely optimized for mass capacity storage devices.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:62 reviews, 62 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the documentation of the `seagate/cortx` repository. Their work included updating and creating guides, such as those for release build creation and IO operations, which involved modifying existing documentation files and adding new ones. They also focused on clarifying installation and configuration steps within the OVA documentation. Their contributions facilitated the usability and understanding of the project by providing more comprehensive and accessible documentation for developers and users.
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hessio/cortx
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
CORTX Community Object Storage is 100% open source object storage uniquely optimized for mass capacity storage devices.
Contributions:48 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
cortx-communitycapacityoptimizedstorageobject-storage
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