Patrick Sanders
Senior Security Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Security at Netflix
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Sanders is a senior security-focused backend engineer with 11 years building cloud infrastructure and least-privilege systems, currently securing Netflix’s cloud deployments. He combines deep backend development experience from startups to large-scale production environments (Pindrop, ISPA) with a practical security lens, contributing to notable open-source tooling like Netflix’s repokid where he added structured JSON logging and security hardening. Based in Los Angeles, he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that scale and cares about meaningful impact beyond just shipping code. Off the clock he’s an avid music fan, a small but telling hint of the thoughtful, human-centered perspective he brings to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of West Florida
English
Github Skills (6)
json10
logging10
aws10
python10
security10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/repokid
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
AWS Least Privilege for Distributed, High-Velocity Deployment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:17 releases, 14 reviews, 98 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick focused on adding JSON logging capabilities to the `repokid` project, modifying the configuration generation and logging formatters to emit structured JSON logs. They implemented changes to the CLI and core modules to accommodate the new logging features, including modifications to the test suite. In addition to the core logging functionality, the user also contributed to security improvements, as this project is focused on least privilege for AWS deployments.
least-privilegedeploymentsecurityprivilegeaws
patricksanders/go-docker-hello
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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