Patrick Whitesell
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Whitesell is a Senior Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust, high-integrity data systems from San Francisco. He specializes in Scala-based functional programming, append-only persistence, and strong end-to-end data validation using Cats, Finagle, Doobie and hand-written SQL against PostgreSQL. His background spans leading data modeling and backend engineering roles at Credit Karma and Earnest, plus early work in real-time systems and allocation-free C# libraries for multiplayer games—evidence of a pragmatic systems thinker who cares about performance and correctness. A proponent of property-based testing and rigorous type-driven design, he focuses on making data pipelines auditable and resilient. He pairs deep implementation expertise with a history of shipping production services at both startups and larger engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Boston College
Github Skills (23)
webapi10
rest10
specification10
oas9
openapi9
swagger8
continuation8
asynchronous8
allocation7
scala7
raii7
effects7
dotty7
unity3d7
monix6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pdo400/smooth.foundations
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 12 days
foundationsfree-codeallocationcleanunity
Earnest-Labs/microtypical
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Earnest microtype / validation library for Scala
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
scalavalidation-libraryvalidation
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