Patrick Nielsen
Co-founder, CEO at Clovyr
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarPatrick Nielsen is a founder-executive and engineer with 16 years building secure, revenue-generating software and scaling decentralized alternatives to centralized SaaS. As Co-founder and CEO of Clovyr (and previously CTO), he blends hands-on backend development—contributions to popular open-source projects like go-cache and dhall-haskell—with strategic leadership at organizations including J.P. Morgan, Ghostery, and Kaspersky. He has led crypto- and infra-focused engineering efforts (Quorum at J.P. Morgan), driven product launches that serviced Fortune 500 clients, and earned citations across academia, regulators, and major media. A technical generalist and pragmatic perfectionist, he pairs deep implementation experience across languages with public affairs and research savvy. Based in New York, he describes his engineering ethos as “make software out of steel, not clay,” reflecting a focus on robustness and long-term operational quality. An unexpected detail: alongside executive roles he remains an active contributor to low-level tooling and YAML/serialization edge cases that improve real-world interoperability.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (37)
caching10
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
dhall10
bash10
dockers10
ether10
data-structure10
security10
proto10
automation10
privacy10
go10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
patrickmn/go-cache
Jan 2012 - Oct 2019
An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 157 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on improving and expanding the functionality of the `go-cache` library. Their contributions include adding new features such as increment/decrement operations, and new commands `Add` and `Replace`. Furthermore, the user made modifications to ensure the correct handling of pointers when storing and retrieving data from the cache, and added several tests to validate new and existing functionalities. Finally, the user added benchmarks to better understand the library's performance characteristics.
golangmemorylrusimilarttl
dhall-lang/dhall-haskell
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Maintainable configuration files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on improving the Haskell-based Dhall language implementation, especially concerning GHCJS support. Their contributions involved adding SHA256 hashing, and fixing remote imports for GHCJS. They also implemented changes related to the 'gpl' cabal flag to switch between HsYAML and aeson-yaml, including bumping aeson-yaml. Additionally, they modified YAML processing, specifically dealing with date/bool string fields.
configurationghchaskellcabalconfiguration-files
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