Summary
Patrick Yurky is a Justice Fellow at Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a former software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging product-grade engineering at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Petuum with legal and policy expertise. A Georgetown Law JD who studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon, he focuses on AI governance, data privacy, and platform regulation—translating technical constraints into practical, legally informed policy recommendations. His background includes hands-on system building and teaching complex CS topics, giving him a rare fluency in both the technical and pedagogical dimensions of emerging tech risk. Patrick has pursued targeted fellowships and internships that apply engineering rigor to policy problems, signaling a shift from building systems to shaping the rules that govern them. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines practitioner experience with a policy-first mindset to help regulators and organizations navigate accountable AI deployment.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Juris Doctor at Georgetown University Law Center
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University