Patrick Watson
Staff Cloud Security Architect at American Express
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Watson is a Staff Cloud Security Architect with over a decade of experience designing and hardening payment systems and cloud security for enterprise fintech and retail platforms. He builds low-level network interfaces to major payment processors and architects cryptographic and authentication infrastructures that keep cardholder data secure and pass rigorous PA-DSS/PCI-DSS validation. His career spans hands-on development roles at Radiant/NCR through security leadership at Kabbage and American Express, blending deep protocol-level expertise with cloud-scale security architecture. Patrick is equally versed in forensic analysis, training, and documentation—translating complex compliance requirements into practical, auditable solutions. Based in Atlanta and educated at Georgia Tech, he brings a rare combination of payment-processing internals and cloud security strategy to reduce merchant risk while enabling scalable payment operations.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
watson81/watson81.github.io
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
watson81/dotfiles
Aug 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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