Patrick Robinson
Staff Engineer at Buildkite
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPatrick Robinson is a Staff Engineer based in Wangaratta, Australia, with 13 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and operational platforms for fast-moving web businesses. He has progressed from hands-on systems and NOC roles to leading DevOps and infrastructure projects at Envato and now driving platform engineering at Buildkite, blending delivery leadership with deep technical execution. Patrick’s strengths include AWS architecture, automation (Puppet, CloudFormation, Packer), and deployment pipelines, and he’s solved tricky production concerns like Kinesis stream integration and checkpointing in open-source stream tooling. Comfortable both coordinating cross-functional teams and shipping backend code, he pairs operational rigor with a developer’s attention to detail. Colleagues rely on him to make complex distributed systems maintainable and operationally mundane.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
amazon-kinesis10
data-engineering10
kin10
go10
golang10
stream-processing10
message-queue9
kafka9
etl8
event-sourcing8
aws8
systemd6
ecto6
amazon-redshift6
amazon-ec26
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/connect
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on integrating Kinesis streams into the `redpanda-data/connect` project. Their work involved implementing a Kinesis input reader using the `gokini` library and enabling credential settings for Kinesis. Furthermore, they updated dependencies, including `gokini`, and addressed an issue related to checkpointing in the Kinesis reader, ensuring data integrity. These changes enhance the project's capability to process data from Kinesis streams.
stream-processordata-streamstreamscqrsstream
envato/akamai-rspec
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Test your akamai configuration with rspec
Contributions:12 PRs, 23 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 4 months
akamairspec
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