Patrick Robertson
Senior Software Engineer at Cartwheel
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Robertson is a senior software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and product-focused platforms, primarily at the intersection of healthcare and technology. He has led engineering, DevOps, and security functions through mergers and exits while driving pragmatic codebase modernization and sustainable delivery practices. Hands-on across front-end and back-end stacks, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like Ember.js and modernized legacy Rails code (copycopter-server), demonstrating an eye for maintainability and performance. Based in Richmond, VA, he combines executive leadership experience with developer craftsmanship and a particular curiosity about how AI can responsibly expand clinician capacity. An unexpected but telling detail: beyond architecture and org strategy, he still enjoys writing code day-to-day and—perhaps tellingly—likes tacos.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (16)
activerecord10
javascript-framework10
javascript10
rails10
refactoring10
front-end-development10
ember10
ruby-on-rails10
testing10
asset-pipeline9
unit-testing9
performance-optimization8
coffeescript7
security7
css5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
copycopter/copycopter-server
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012
Copycopter Server is open source. Run it as a web service.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on refactoring and updating the codebase of the copycopter-server. They removed deprecated dependencies like DelayedJob and replaced them with synchronous counterparts. Major changes included Rails version upgrades and migrating to the asset pipeline, as well as fixing minor UI and N+1 query performance issues. They also updated documentation, enhanced the user experience, and fixed security vulnerabilities.
webservice
emberjs/ember.js
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 15 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on refactoring and decoupling tests within the Ember.js framework. They extracted and rewrote tests related to component contexts, link-to with query parameters, view instrumentation, and toString functions. The contributions involved modifying test files, updating CSS classes, and adapting tests to use alternative resolvers, enhancing the test structure and potentially improving the framework's maintainability. The user's work also included addressing asynchronous operations in tests.
emberjsjavascript-frameworkemberjavascript
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