Patrick C.

Served in an advisory capacity as Raise Financial's Fractional CTO, ensuring timely delivery of its core investment product, assisting with due diligence for fundraising, and leading a small team of engineers in a fast-paced environment.

• Crafted technical strategy for Raise Financial, owning product decisions, architecture, hiring, vendors, and security.
• Guided technical due diligence for Raise Financial's $2M seed round fundraise.
• Partnered with the CEO on product direction and technical implications; recruited and managed a 5-person team and roadmap.
• Managed engineering through development and beta launch of Raise’s investment product, delivering on-time for launch milestones.

Led engineering and hyper-scaled team from 0 to over 250 full-time staff in under 4 months to deliver RL environments and human data pipelines to AI lab clients. Advised the C-suite on company-wide decisions.

• Scaled G2i's engineering organization from 0 to 250+ full-time staff in under four months, supporting the company's expansion into frontier AI labs during its growth to $100M+ in revenue.
• Set engineering strategy and the technical roadmap based on client needs. Led delivery of AI infrastructure, RL environments, human data systems and pipelines, and tools.
• Managed engineering leaders and set technical direction and hiring standards. Improved security and compliance readiness.
• Defined technical requirements and developed commercial plans with customers, including project scope, staffing, and delivery commitments.
• Trained 40+ non-technical staff across business functions on what the engineering team could build and deliver.

Contracted with Kustomer (both before and after divestiture from Meta) to rebuild its Apps SDK for consumption by external application developers. Built a series of production-deployed sample applications to facilitate dogfooding of the SDK for integration with third-party systems.

• Focused on developer experience for the Kustomer Apps SDK while part of Meta, enabling external app integrations.
• Redesigned the entire Apps SDK library in TypeScript while increasing unit test coverage from ~50% to 95%+.
• Created public SDK documentation, built 8 sample apps, and deployed integrations for Magento, Klaviyo, Zoom, Slack, and others.

Contracted with Vianai to rebuild its entire front-end application with the intention of dramatically improving performance. Ended up leading the entire front-end development team and provided proper handoff upon departure.

• Improved front-end architecture performance, reducing app load time by 60%+ and memory usage by 80%+.
• Designed a shared TypeScript and Storybook component library adopted across the core platform and 3 front-end applications.
• Developed a library on top of D3.js to standardize data visualization across all front-end use cases.
• Defined front-end standards and handoff documentation enabling post-engagement maintenance by a 6-person team.

Led both OpenMined's internal engineering team of over 80 paid full-time contributors, as well as a broader community of over 14,000 people, to create open-source privacy-preserving machine learning libraries. Served as primary systems architect and crafted $2M+ in grants.

• Led all engineering resources, reporting to the CEO and overseeing 80+ engineers, data scientists, and cryptographers across 15 remote teams for developing privacy-preserving machine learning libraries.
• Secured and administered $2M+ in grants from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Twitter, and the University of California with a 100% funding success rate.
• Architected PyGrid and related libraries in the Syft suite, and contributed to PySyft’s API design. Delivered 15+ privacy-enhancing libraries across multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, federated learning, and more.
• Served on the founding committee, helping grow the worldwide community to 14,000+ members across 80+ countries.

Built a small team to create the world's first open-source libraries for federated learning across all major deployment modalities, including serving as chief architect of the broader system.

• Architected the world's first open-source libraries for distributed federated learning on web (TypeScript), Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift), and server/IoT (Python).
• Recruited and led a 20+ person team of software engineers and data scientists building open-source federated-learning tools.
• Built a bridge library translating 100s of PyTorch/TensorFlow operations into TensorFlow.js for browser execution.
• Drafted the successful $500,000 grant proposal supporting the program and managed the team's implementation work.

Designed, developed, and forward-deployed a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine suite in over 30 skilled nursing facilities across the U.S. System used WebRTC for live audio, video, and data streaming of patient vital signs to off-site healthcare providers.

• Developed web-based and native Android HIPAA-compliant telehealth apps with real-time audio, video, and patient vital sign data streaming.
• Integrated Google Glass and 3 Bluetooth medical devices using WebRTC for real-time communications streaming back to a remote provider.
• Deployed on-premise to 30+ facilities; responsible for training nurses and clinical staff to operate the system.

Designed and developed a consumer-facing application for visualizing the U.S. campaign finance system. Team aggregated the country's largest public dataset on the American political system and related lobbying efforts.

• Built AngularJS front-end integrating with a Ruby on Rails API back-end for production deployments.
• Crafted interactive data visualizations on 110M+ rows of lobbying and campaign finance data.
• Selected for the Jumpstart Foundry startup accelerator program to lead product development.

Served as the primary software developer of dozens of Wordpress websites at a local digital marketing firm while simultaneously enrolled as a full-time university student.

• Created 40+ WordPress websites for clients while enrolled as a full-time student.
• Coded 10+ custom PHP plugins to extend client sites and integrate with CMS workflows.
• Collaborated with design teams in Adobe Creative Suite to code pixel-perfect, mobile-first websites.