Patrick Szalapski
Principal Analyst at Independent Contractor
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Szalapski is a Principal Analyst and seasoned full-stack engineer with 12+ years delivering .NET Core, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Docker, and SQL Server solutions for large enterprise business problems. At General Mills he has led multi-disciplinary teams to build manufacturing execution, trade promotion, and pricing optimization systems that handle billions in transactions and saved thousands of person-hours through UX and architectural improvements. He combines hands-on implementation—web services, class libraries, ETL, and data warehousing—with pragmatic architecture and platform modernization, often shepherding greenfield systems to production. A veteran Agile coach, he has scaled Scrum/Kanban and software-quality practices across organizations, driving measurable adoption of CI, testing, and peer review and transforming team culture to eliminate attrition. Patrick’s background on both the developer bench and in business-facing roles gives him rare empathy for stakeholders and an ability to translate domain needs into maintainable, high-impact software. He also maintains an active presence in General Mills’ GitHub repos, focusing his open-source work on .NET and Blazor implementations.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, College Prep, High School Diploma, College Prep at Concordia Academy-RosevilleUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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visual-studio-code
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
msal10
kafka-consumer10
apache10
desktop10
database-connectivity10
restful10
command-line10
windows10
asp-net10
powershell10
azure-ad-b2c10
scala10
ado-net10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
szalapski/BlazorRerenderReducers
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Provides classes useful for reducing the frequency of component re-renders of Blazor components to a minimum.
Contributions:2 releases, 105 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
blazor-interopjsinteropblazor-webassemblyblazorminimum
szalapski/Timeline
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Makes visual timelines for teaching and study based on dates or sequences of events
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
teachingeventsdatestimelines
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