Patrick Leary
Software DevOps Engineer at iNaturalist.org
Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Leary is a Software DevOps Engineer with 12+ years building and maintaining biodiversity-focused web platforms, currently doing DevOps and backend development for iNaturalist. He brings deep Rails and server-side experience, having contributed bug fixes and core model work (Observation, Taxon) to the main iNaturalist repository that powers a widely used citizen science site. Prior roles include lead development at the Encyclopedia of Life and long-term informatics work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, reflecting a strong niche in biodiversity informatics and data modeling. Comfortable across operations and software, he blends deployment automation with pragmatic code changes that directly improve data quality and API behavior. Based in Falmouth, MA, he pairs a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics with a history of stewarding long-lived scientific data systems. An understated strength is his focus on the intersection of reliable infrastructure and domain-specific data integrity rather than flashy new tech.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at Skidmore College
Github Skills (6)
activerecord10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
database-design8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
inaturalist/inaturalist
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 reviews, 2266 commits, 561 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's commits primarily focused on fixing bugs and adding new features related to observation data and its interactions with the iNaturalist platform. The user made changes to models such as `Observation` and `Taxon`, indicating an involvement with the core data structures of the application. They also worked on specifications and other API related fixes, implying work on the server-side logic and potentially data-handling aspects of the platform.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsinaturalistruby
inaturalist/elasticmaps
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Map tileserver based on node-mapnik and elasticsearch
Contributions:113 commits, 34 PRs, 104 pushes in 7 years 9 months
map-editormapboxtileservertilenodejs
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