Patrick J. McDonagh

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Summary

Experienced engineer with 10+ years designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native and IoT platforms. Proven track record owning critical systems, leading cross-team technical initiatives, and improving reliability, security, and developer productivity. Deep expertise in Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, with strong product intuition.

Experience

  1. Senior Cloud Engineer

    PwC / Kunai

    Jul 2024 – Present

    Remote

    • Embedded with Capital One’s Velocity Black platform, owning data security and privacy pipelines
    • Designed real-time detection and mitigation systems for highly sensitive human data under strict latency constraints using OCR
    • Led performance and reliability testing strategy for distributed services
    • Improved platform security posture via automated secret rotation and hardened workflows

  2. Core Services Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer

    Pepper

    Apr 2022 – May 2024

    Remote

    • Technical lead for core IoT ingestion and API platform used by customer-facing mobile applications
    • Owned backend architecture in Go, Node.js, and Protocol Buffers
    • Led migration from AWS Lambda to Kubernetes and Knative, improving scalability and cost efficiency
    • Established internal developer platform standards via Backstage
    • Acted as primary technical partner for product and mobile teams

  3. Director of Product / Senior IoT Integrations Engineer

    HSB Meshify

    Aug 2018 – Apr 2022

    Remote

    • Owned end-to-end IoT product strategy spanning hardware, firmware, cloud services, and analytics
    • Designed and launched LTE-M and NB-IoT hardware products
    • Led global infrastructure migration to Kubernetes
    • Reduced platform downtime from approximately 24 hours per month to under 30 minutes per month
    • Balanced technical architecture with customer and business constraints

  4. Product Manager / Software and Electrical Engineer

    Henry Pump

    Nov 2014 – Aug 2018

    Remote

    • Designed control systems and analytics platforms for industrial production environments
    • Delivered full-stack systems across embedded, backend, and UI layers

  5. Field Service Engineer

    Rockwell Automation

    Apr 2013 – Nov 2014

    Dallas, TX

    • Delivered PLC, HMI, and VFD solutions for industrial automation and water filtration systems
    • Executed legacy system migrations and on-site commissioning

  6. Electrical Engineer

    Barry-Wehmiller Design Group

    Jun 2011 – Apr 2013

    St. Louis, MO

    • Led manufacturing control projects, including virtualization of production servers for large-scale facilities

Skills

Languages
Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL
Cloud and Infrastructure
AWS, Kubernetes, Knative, Terraform, Serverless
Architecture
Distributed systems, event-driven platforms, IoT
Security
Data privacy, secrets management, secure data pipelines
Controls and Physical Systems
PLC and industrial automation systems; HMI and SCADA design and implementation; real-time and safety-critical system constraints; hardware–software integration, field reliability, and remote monitoring
Leadership
Technical strategy, cross-team collaboration, mentorship

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

University of Missouri, Columbia

May 2011