Summary
Patrick Tierney is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building production systems that bridge architecture, design automation, and construction technology. He’s led engineering teams and founded core platforms at startups and large companies—most recently joining Meta to work on ML infrastructure—after directing engineering at Katerra and co-founding Aro Homes where he built parcel-search, CAD-to-ERP pipelines, and finance reporting tools. Patrick combines deep systems and language-level engineering (C#, C++, Go) with cloud-native, serverless architectures that have cut costs dramatically and scaled data pipelines processing millions of records daily. He holds inventorship on multiple US patents for BIM and cloud construction metrics and has a background in architecture (Princeton MArch, UCLA BA), which informs his rare blend of spatial thinking and robust software engineering. Notably, he has presented work to industry audiences (SuiteWorld, NASCC, Stanford) and supported a successful software IP sale, demonstrating both technical depth and commercial impact.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
MArch, Architecture, MArch, Architecture at Princeton University