Summary
Patrick Skerrett is a cloud and infrastructure executive with 20+ years of experience and 11 years in senior leadership, currently leading global Infrastructure, Security & DevOps as Head of Cloud Operations at iManage. He has built and run massive SaaS infrastructures and global datacenter footprints—ranging from a 500M hits/day education platform at Blackboard to multi-petabyte storage and enterprise document management for legal and financial firms. Patrick blends hands-on architecture and incident leadership with strategic security oversight, running 24/7 operations across more than ten datacenters and integrating platform security into development delivery. Known for pragmatic capacity planning, vendor negotiation, and resilient design, he has repeatedly translated business requirements into highly available, auditable systems. Based in Chicago, he pairs deep legacy systems experience with modern cloud operations practices, often surfacing subtle operational efficiencies that reduce risk and cost.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Technical Resource Management, BS Technical Resource Management at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale