Patrick Widener
Group Leader, Data Engineering
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Widener is a seasoned computing researcher and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building high-performance, distributed, and pervasive computing systems across national labs and academia. Now Group Leader for Data Engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a long-time research faculty at the University of New Mexico, he blends hands-on software development with deep expertise in metadata, security policy, and information privacy. His career spans Sandia and Emory, reflecting an ability to translate rigorous research into production-ready systems for large, mission-driven organizations. A PhD from Georgia Tech and an active Google Scholar record signal sustained contributions to computing research while his background in both enterprise and scientific software gives him a rare fluency across code, data, and policy.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at James Madison UniversityMaster of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
preprocessing10
file-format10
snl-applications10
translation9
leveldb9
storage9
code-analysis9
ordered9
database9
finite-element-analysis8
key-value7
boost6
exchange4
aerospike4
prebuild3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pwidene/drift
Nov 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
pwidene/emacs.d
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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