Patrick Weygand
Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Weygand is a Principal Engineer with 14–15 years in software development and over a decade specializing in frontend engineering, now focused on crafting high-quality browser-side experiences. He has led teams and built end-to-end web tooling at companies from Motional and Fender to Palo Alto Networks, shipping complex annotation tools, performance improvements that cut load times by millions of milliseconds, and robust CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable owning “the backend of the frontend,” he rewrote large codebases into TypeScript, introduced GraphQL services, and designed WebSocket and SSO infrastructure while coaching teams on best practices. Patrick blends hands-on development with technical leadership—hiring, defining processes, and setting release and support workflows—to turn ambiguous product needs into dependable delivery. Based in Los Angeles, he seeks a team that loves diving deep into JavaScript and UX while obsessing over performance and intuitive interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (100)
sitemap10
sitemap-xml10
sitemap-generator10
typescript10
compatibility10
nodejs10
oembed10
embedded-javascript9
exception-handling9
bugsnag9
ejs9
json9
error-messages8
browser8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Fullscreen/angulartics-optimizely
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years
optimizelyangularticsangular
derduher/spatial-hashmap
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 118 commits, 81 PRs in 3 years 2 months
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