Patrick McMurchie
System Administrator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPatrick McMurchie is a Seattle-based Systems Administrator with nine years of hands-on experience managing infrastructure and back-end systems. He blends practical DevOps expertise with strong backend problem-solving, evidenced by contributions to the blast-radius project where he improved Terraform parsing, added module support, and tightened server-side exception handling. Comfortable across command-line tooling and automation, he focuses on making infrastructure visualizations and tooling more robust and user-friendly. Known for a pragmatic, tool-driven approach, he pairs meticulous operational work with an appreciation for developer ergonomics. Outside day-to-day ops he contributes to open source, favoring projects that bridge infrastructure and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
python10
jinja210
configuration-management10
terraform10
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
stream6
nginx6
logging6
curl6
bash6
algorithm6
yum6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
28mm/blast-radius
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Interactive visualizations of Terraform dependency graphs using d3.js
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:87 commits, 26 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to improving the functionality of the project by adding exception handling to resource definitions and correcting command-line arguments. They also added variable/output "stacking" to reduce figure width and implemented module support. These changes involved modifying files related to handling Terraform configurations and the server-side components, indicating a focus on back-end logic and infrastructure management.
terragruntdependency-graphsd3-jsinteractive-visualizationsgraphs
28mm/28mm.github.io
May 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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