PATRICK BENNETT
Senior Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA | 404.514.7647 | patrickisgreat@gmail.com
GitHub: github.com/patrickisgreat
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/patrick-bennett-7769016
Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/users/864159/funkenstein
Portfolio: patrickisgreat.com


SUMMARY

13 years shipping production software, two of them in aviation at Airbus /
Skywise. I build the systems that let AI agents do real engineering work:
agentic CI/CD, MCP servers, RAG retrieval and LLM tooling across Vue /
TypeScript front ends and cloud-native backends. I also know when a problem is
better off without a model.


SKILLS

AI and Agentic: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, MCP servers, agent orchestration, RAG,
embeddings, pgvector, prompt engineering, prompt caching, LLM code review in CI,
Claude Code

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, PHP, Swift, SQL

Frontend: Vue.js, Nuxt, React, Next.js, SPA, micro-frontends, HTML, SASS, CSS,
Tailwind

Backend and Data: Node.js, Go, FastAPI, NestJS, federated GraphQL, REST, Kafka,
Postgres, DynamoDB, BigQuery

DevOps and Testing: GitHub Actions, Docker, Linux, AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, SQS,
EC2, S3), GCP, CloudFormation, Terraform, Playwright, Vitest, Jest, Pytest, k6


EXPERIENCE

Threaditate - Founder and Principal Engineer
November 2025 - Present | Atlanta, GA

- Threaditate turns a customer photo into a string art pattern for a physical
  240-pin loom kit. Built the platform: Next.js 15 / React 19 / TypeScript
  (strict) driving a Rust-to-WebAssembly solver in a Web Worker, on Supabase,
  Vercel and a Shopify storefront.
- Built Neural Threadwork, a closed-loop retrieval system for render quality: a
  vision-model judge scores every render, a 16-dimension structured feature
  embedding indexes it in pgvector, and nearest-neighbour retrieval feeds
  winning recipes back to the advisor as few-shot exemplars. Structured features
  beat CLIP here: tone, not semantics, predicts the recipe.
- Architected an AI-augmented GitHub Actions pipeline (lint, type, unit and
  Playwright E2E gates plus nightly E2E) with an LLM reviewer on every pull
  request, trigger-scoped and model-pinned to hold review spend down without
  losing coverage.
- Published agentic-toolkit: an Actions layer turning any repo into an issue ->
  agent -> PR -> review -> merge -> retro loop, behind one provider seam that
  runs the same workflows on Claude Code, OpenAI Codex or Google Gemini, with
  complexity routing and a human approval gate.
- Also built sharma-bot, a Go agent loop straight on the Anthropic SDK (no
  framework) with tool use, prompt caching and per-call cost telemetry; an
  approve-first bookkeeping agent with an append-only audit log and per-action
  undo; and a Nuxt 4 / Vue 3 SPA on Supabase.


SoundCloud - Senior Software Engineer
October 2023 - November 2025 | Remote

- Creator Success / Artist Analytics: shipped a new user settings service in Go
  and DynamoDB, architected a regional minor-protections system, and migrated
  legacy Scala and JVM services onto AWS (DynamoDB, S3).
- Provisioned AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform, wired automated
  end-to-end tests into GitHub Actions, extended a federated GraphQL subgraph
  ecosystem in TypeScript and Go, and built Kafka event pipelines plus BigQuery
  ETL.


Airbus / Skywise - Senior Software Engineer
September 2021 - October 2023 | Atlanta, GA

- Senior engineer: architected the Network Operations Optimization (NOO) data
  pipelines for real-time airline logistics on Python, FastAPI, Serverless, AWS
  Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis and SQS, and helped drive PI planning for 10-week
  SAFe iterations.
- Helped instate e2e, integration and unit testing across Skywise Predictive
  Maintenance, including a GraphQL mocking system that made pipeline runs
  deterministic.
- Proposed and helped build the Atlanta Experience Center: a customized A320 in
  Microsoft Flight Simulator with a 3D cockpit, wired into Skywise for executive
  demos.


CNN / WarnerMedia - Senior Software Engineer
March 2020 - September 2021 | Atlanta, GA

- Improved the performance and scalability of LiveStory, a high-traffic React /
  GraphQL application powering live news feeds for millions of readers a day.
- Profiled and refactored the cnn-data-api GraphQL service with k6 and Apollo
  Studio, removing bottlenecks in resolvers and schema stitching.
- Built a failover REST API for LiveStory to absorb the traffic surge during the
  2020 Presidential election.
- Built the first iteration of CNN+, CNN's video streaming platform, inside
  CNN's proprietary publishing platform.
- Built DOM reconciliation features within CNN's Clay CMS to achieve reactive
  client-side UI updates.
- Built a Redux-style ClientModel layer in Clay for component-level state
  management across components.


Digital Additive - Senior Software Engineer
April 2015 - March 2020 | Atlanta, GA

- Developed and deployed Vacoda, a content management and creation system for
  corporate teams built in Laravel and Vue.js, in production use by Home Depot
  CRM teams and Carters.com.
- Configured Vacoda to ship to AWS EC2 instances via custom Docker containers
  driven by BitBucket Pipelines.
- Built a product rating system for Home Depot.
- Built middleware and integrations for WeWork, IBM / Interact and SouthernLinc,
  extending the functionality of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.


BlacQube - Web Developer
May 2013 - April 2015 | Atlanta, GA

- Built award-winning mobile and web front ends for Mercedes and Mercedes-AMG.
- Worked closely with designers to translate static designs into animated,
  interactive experiences in JavaScript and jQuery.
- Upgraded CakePHP on the Mercedes-AMG Private Lounge web app.
- Administered the web servers hosting various builds.


EDUCATION

Wallace State College - Computer Science
2000 - 2002 | Hartselle, AL

Continuous: Coursera, MIT OpenCourseWare, MDN Web Docs, Udemy