Patrick Webster
Lead Platform Engineer
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Webster is a Lead Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building, securing, and automating cloud-native infrastructure and backend services. He blends deep systems and operations expertise—from early unix sysadmin and hosting business ownership to designing GKE/GCP auto-scaling platforms and CI/CD pipelines—with practical software craftsmanship in Go (including contributions to the widely used GitLab Go SDK). Known for preferring automation over busywork, he brings a security-first mindset developed as a Staff Security Engineer and a track record of optimizing legacy systems and data migrations. Based in Indianapolis, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity about core technology, and outside work he’s also a drummer—an indicator of his rhythmic approach to steady, reliable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science / German, Computer Science / German at Purdue UniversityTelecommunications / German, Telecommunications / German at Ball State University
English, German
Github Skills (5)
go10
api10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
cicd4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xanzy/go-gitlab
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 20 PRs, 20 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the development of the GitLab Go SDK, focusing on adding and improving features related to project and group variables, and key management. Their work involved creating API endpoints for managing project and group-level variables, adding support for group issue boards, and incorporating functionalities for listing merge requests associated with commits. They also made enhancements to existing code, including refactoring and fixing naming inconsistencies to align with GitLab API specifications.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
pmwebster/go-gitlab
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
A GitLab API client enabling Go programs to interact with GitLab in a simple and uniform way
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years
golangapiapi-clientgitlab-apigitlab
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