Patrick Nelson
Sr. Manager, Web Development, Corporate Digital Experience
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Nelson is a seasoned full-stack web engineering leader with 12+ years building and operating high-availability sites and infrastructure for eBay and major e-commerce brands. As Sr. Manager of Web Development for eBay’s Corporate Digital Experience, he blends hands-on front- and back-end development with architecture, CI/CD, virtualization, and incident-ready operations. He’s led high-profile experimental projects in AR and VR that resulted in issued patents, and still contributes to open-source frameworks such as Silverstripe with thoughtful bug fixes and API improvements. Known for tenacious problem solving and an analytical bent, he thrives on rooting out hard issues and mentoring teams to deliver production-grade solutions. Based in Portland, he combines product-focused engineering with practical infrastructure know-how, often implementing solutions he’d enjoy building even outside of work.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
mvc-framework10
cms10
debug10
javascript10
php10
error-handling10
api-design9
unit-testing7
html7
lodash6
svelte6
webstorm6
docker6
environment-variables6
jetbrains-ides6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Feb 2015 - Aug 2021
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 35 commits, 53 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on bug fixes and minor enhancements to the Silverstripe Framework. Their contributions included resolving issues related to form validation, the TinyMCE editor, and listbox field error messages. They also addressed a critical issue with JSON parsing and contributed code to improve the framework's internal API. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining the existing codebase and addressing specific functional issues.
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silverstripe/silverstripe-cms
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Silverstripe CMS - this is a module for Silverstripe Framework rather than a standalone app. Use https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer/ to set this up.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Silverstripe CMS framework. Their work focused on resolving issues related to error handling during page publishing, specifically addressing fatal errors and undefined variables. They also addressed issues related to button functionality in the CMS interface and ensured type-safe file operations. Additionally, the user made updates to testing files to ensure code quality.
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