Patrick Mccarthy
Technical Lead (Staff) Software Engineer at Redfin
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Mccarthy is a Technical Lead and staff software engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, observable cloud systems across web, ML, and aviation domains. He blends full-stack fluency with a backend/cloud focus—recently driving backend systems and AI automation at Redfin while having operationalized ML-powered services like the Redfin Estimate. His background includes embedded and maintenance systems for Boeing and Blue Origin, giving him practical expertise in safety-critical, on-board software and complex supply-chain tooling. Patrick is comfortable across languages and platforms (Python, Java, TypeScript, Node, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS) and is known for guiding teams to deliver production-ready, scalable services. An economist and historian by training, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking perspective that helps bridge product, data science, and operations.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Economics, B.S., Economics at University of Washington
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
cli10
wikipedia10
browser-extension10
wikimedia10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
angular10
typescript9
npmjs9
angular-cli9
giphy9
npx8
nvm7
versioning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ptmccarthy/wikimapper
May 2013 - Jul 2021
Wikipedia Tracking Chrome Extension
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 387 commits in 8 years 3 months
wikimediatrackingchromewikipediafirefox-addon
ptmccarthy/dotfiles
Jan 2014 - Feb 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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