Patrick Jennings
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Jennings is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems, cloud solutions, and automation for enterprise and datacenter environments. Currently at Red Hat, he brings deep Python and Linux expertise alongside hands-on experience with Java, C++, and frontend frameworks from prior roles at Lenovo and Salesfusion. He has managed large-scale AWS deployments, orchestrated hybrid cloud offerings, and developed automation showcased at events like MWC and Red Hat Summit. An active contributor to the widely used Keycloak IAM project, Patrick has improved client type validation, integration tests, and configuration inheritance—demonstrating attention to secure, correct defaults. He combines academic rigor from Georgia Tech with practical, cross-stack fluency and a track record of shipping reliable, scalable infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (10)
keycloak10
javas10
java10
testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
oid9
saml8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Keycloak project by addressing issues related to client type validation and service account configurations. They implemented and refined validation logic for client type parameters, ensuring that modifications to client settings adhere to the defined client type configurations. The contributions included creating specific integration tests to validate client type behavior and correct error handling. Furthermore, they worked on default configurations for client types and also added support for client type configuration inheritance.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
patrickjennings/plasma-web-server
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 58 commits, 46 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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