Summary
Patrick Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems across healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer-facing startups. Currently at Courier Health, he focuses on patient engagement platforms for life sciences, bringing prior senior engineering experience securing connected devices at Finite State. He combines a pragmatic full‑stack skill set—Python, React/React Native, backend services and data pipelines—with a strong emphasis on readable, well‑tested, and well‑factored code. Patrick has a track record of shipping cross-platform mobile and web applications, automating data workflows, and integrating complex systems for regulated industries. Based in New Jersey, he pairs academic foundations (BS/MS in Computer Science from Drexel) with hands-on contributions like an Alexa skills Python framework and diverse implementations across OpenStack, Spark, and cloud deployments. Colleagues would describe him as a problem solver who balances delivery velocity with long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS MS Computer Science, BS MS Computer Science at Drexel University
B.S. & M.S Computer Science, B.S. & M.S Computer Science at Drexel University, Pennoni Honors College