Patrick Williams
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Williams is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building privacy-focused, high-scale web platforms from low-level Windows drivers to modern React/Flux applications. Based in Seattle, he has driven engineering teams and shipped production systems at Meta, Porch, and BitTorrent, where he led development of a BitTorrent-powered web platform and managed a site serving over 100M page views per month. He combines deep systems and security roots—reverse engineering botnets and kernel driver work early in his career—with front-end expertise, contributing fixes and tests to widely used open-source Fluxible React addons. Known for bridging architecture and hands-on implementation, he excels at making complex distributed and privacy-sensitive systems auditable and reliable. Patrick’s background suggests a pragmatic focus on developer ergonomics and long-lived platform stability, informed by both research-grade reversal work and large-scale product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (10)
component-development10
testing-library-react10
react-testing-library10
javascript10
fluxor10
react-testing10
react10
flux10
web-content9
webpages9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/fluxible
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
A pluggable container for universal flux applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the `fluxible-addons-react` library, a core component for building Flux applications with React. Their commits addressed crucial aspects, including ensuring proper ref handling for React components (class vs. function), fixing context type support within higher-order components, and improving the component display name convention. The user's work also involved unit testing React components to validate correct behavior across various scenarios.
javascriptreactfluxpluggable
pwmckenna/node-travis-lint
Nov 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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