Patrick Menzel
Staff Infra Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Menzel is a Staff Infra Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building cloud-first infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD systems at companies like Slack, Mode, Quip, and Roostify. He specializes in reducing operational toil—examples include cutting build times by 75%, slashing post-deploy runtimes by 80%, and automating CVE checks to remove manual review. Patrick has deep hands-on Terraform, Salt, AWS, and orchestration experience, and has led cross-functional projects to migrate internal CI to CircleCI and support ECS deployments. He’s comfortable bridging engineering, security, and client needs—having managed a custom AWS build for JPMorgan Chase while ensuring ISO 27001 compliance. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and measurable reliability improvements rather than theoretical designs. His background as a litigation paralegal-turned-engineer gives him uncommon strengths in project coordination, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration - Economics and Finance, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration - Economics and Finance at Notre Dame de Namur University
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Github Skills (59)
plugin10
api-client9
fastly9
client-library9
credentials8
python8
api8
keychain8
ansible8
exporter7
sts7
aws-credentials7
ssh7
cloudwatch6
cli6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pmmenzel/Party_Planner
Feb 2015 - May 2022
Help plan Parties, BBQs and Potlucks
Contributions:41 PRs, 54 pushes, 41 branches in 7 years 4 months
partiesplan
pmmenzel/pmmenzel.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 1 month
react
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