Gavin Patton
Software Engineer at Puppet
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Patton is a software engineer at Puppet with five years’ experience building CI/CD pipelines, automated virtual appliances, and secure network environments. He blends hands-on development in Python, C and Java with practical DevOps and cybersecurity expertise, having both attacked and defended isolated networks. His background includes research-focused work at ECIT’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies and a 1st class Master’s in Physics from Queen’s University Belfast, reflecting strong analytical foundations. At Puppet he’s progressed from associate to engineer, contributing to production-grade tooling for infrastructure automation. Gavin is committed to continuous learning and enjoys applying scientific rigor to secure, repeatable software delivery. An atypical detail: his profile combines deep systems thinking from physics with real-world adversarial security experience.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, 1st Class Honours, Master's degree, Physics, 1st Class Honours at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (69)
ini-file10
puppet10
ntp10
sdk10
pdk10
git-addons10
concatenation10
access-control-list10
vscode10
account-management10
giphy10
rspec-puppet10
microsoft-sql9
kubernetes-cluster9
lvm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GSPatton/auth-client
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
GSPatton/save-date
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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