Patrick Spafford

Sept 5, 2026

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Professional Experience

Automated manual processes for expanding virtual networking fleet capacity using a custom tree algorithm in Python
Drove the reconfiguration of virtual networking fleet topology to prevent customer impact in 12+ commercial OCI regions
Mentored 2 junior engineers on IaC, Terraform, region build automation, Codex skills, approaches to debugging, and career advancement topics
Restructured a nonproduction environment to make room for other virtual networking teams to test their application, for pipeline deployments, and more consistency
Supported automatic region build for VNICaaS, Network Load Balancer, and Service Gateway as part of a regular on-call rotation

Primarily developed microfrontends for the Oracle Cloud console’s virtual network monitoring services using React, TypeScript, and later an internal front end framework.
Wrote thorough automated tests (unit & integration) for these services using Jest, WebdriverIO, and Playwright.
Leveraged Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform) to manage application infrastructure and orchestrate deployments to production.
In 2023, contributed regularly to the development and stability of an internal web framework written in React and TypeScript. In fact, I was the top contributor who wasn’t on the dedicated front end framework team (as measured by number of merged PRs).
Wrote the occasional command line application to automate tasks using Python. For example, to automate grouping application deployments to specific cloud regions.
Made a custom Visual Studio Code syntax highlighter for an internal front end framework, even though no one asked me to do it.
Supported and triaged issues in dozens of microfrontends as part of a regular on-call rotation.

Developed the Tennibot app using React Native, Redux, and Recoil.
Bootstrapped a proprietary inventory management system for assembling the robots using Next.js, DigitalOcean, Postgres, Prisma, and React.
Built the Har-Tru HyQ Court app and corresponding web app with Firebase, Expo, and Next.js.
Created and maintained tennibot.com with WordPress, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.
Authored and deployed a serverless Python API with Flask to AWS Lambda used for detecting robot firmware updates.
Led a public hackathon wherein participants were tasked with using the Spotify API to create a music app prototype for their favorite artist.

Pair-programmed a React app using the Serverless framework for integrating with other APIs including Shortcut, Datadog, AWS S3.
Automated iOS and Android app advertising tasks using Python and the Google Drive API.
Refactored an existing React component library written in TypeScript.

Documented support cases for ARMS (Automated Records Management System) clients, precisely formulating software behaviors.
Collaborated with other support technicians to answer questions and address extraordinary behaviors.
Wrote technical documentation and FAQs for clients accessing the company support site.
Connected remotely with customers to walk through software features, diagnose errors, run scripts, and create views with Microsoft SQL Server.

A weightlifting app designed for ease-of-use and automatic progressive overload.
Built with SwiftUI and a custom serverless API (Supabase Edge Functions, Deno, Postgres).

A Node-based MCP server for Claude Desktop that allows Claude to interact with BrickByBrick Fitness APIs.
Gives Claude context on workout history, what exercises are next, the ability to create workouts, and more.

Computer Science (GPA: 3.91) with a minor in Information Systems Management

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