Patrick Toal
Sr. Solutions Architect - Automation Specialist
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Toal is a Sr. Solutions Architect and Automation Specialist with 16 years of experience helping organizations adopt Automation, DevOps, cloud orchestration, and container technologies to improve execution and reduce costs. As Red Hat’s Canadian Ansible specialist, he designs cross-platform automation solutions for Linux, Windows, and networking environments and works closely with communities and customers to operationalize best practices. His background includes long tenures in systems engineering at Cisco and systems administration, giving him deep roots in both infrastructure and enterprise networking. Patrick blends hands-on technical delivery with customer-facing architecture and enablement, turning complex automation needs into repeatable playbooks and runbooks. Outside of work he stays creatively engaged by developing Minecraft plugins and other personal projects, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s approach to problem solving. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he brings both strategic vision and day-to-day implementation experience to automation initiatives.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (176)
minecraft10
python10
expressions10
creator10
cisco-ios10
rhel10
chat10
automation10
home-assistant10
paper-plugin10
backend10
ssh10
network-configuration10
django10
txt10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Sagely-ca/sagely-ca.github.io
Jun 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:329 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
ptoal/ansible-workshop
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Training Course for Ansible Network Automation
Contributions:92 pushes, 36 branches in 4 years 1 month
netmikonetwork-automationansiblenetboxtraining
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