Patrick Koenig
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Koenig is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, scalable, and maintainable systems, currently focused on platform security and developer tooling at Palantir. He led development of shared authentication and authorization infrastructure, optimizing expressive access controls and delivering measurable performance gains through targeted profiling. Patrick has deep experience rewriting build systems and creating pluggable scheduling for data pipelines, and contributes to notable open-source projects like Gradle Baseline and FlexGet where he fixed integrations and improved tooling. Grounded in a CS and math degree from Carnegie Mellon, he blends rigorous engineering with a security-first mindset and a practical interest in programming language design and developer productivity. An attention to edge cases shows up in his OSS work—fixing daylight savings bugs and URL-escaping issues—highlighting a meticulous approach to reliability and interoperability.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA: 3.80 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA: 3.80 / 4.00 at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
android-gradle-plugin10
flex10
python10
apidoc10
java10
baseline10
javas10
checkstyle10
api10
gradle-plugin10
gradlew10
error-prone10
gradle10
zone9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/gradle-baseline
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
A set of Gradle plugins that configure default code quality tools for developers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:124 reviews, 60 commits, 103 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to improving the `gradle-baseline` project, a set of Gradle plugins for code quality. Their work included resolving build conflicts related to version properties, enhancing the accuracy of unused pin checks, and improving existing error-prone checks. Furthermore, the user updated the configuration to disable problematic checkstyle rules and upgraded the project by adding baseline-encoding, class-uniqueness, and immutables plugins.
spotbugsocto-correct-managedgradlepmdgradle-plugins
jmrozanec/cron-utils
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Cron utils for parsing, validations and human readable descriptions as well as date/time interoperability.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the `cron-utils` library by fixing bugs and improving the library's functionality. Their work included addressing string representation issues within the `On` field, fixing a failing test case related to daylight savings time, and resolving an issue (332) related to time calculations. The user also made optimizations such as limiting iterations and simplifying time calculations, and they removed a dependency on log4j.
cron-utilsinteroperabilitycrondescriptionsdate-time
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