Patricia Torvalds
Senior Software Engineer at Coast
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPatricia Torvalds is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-focused tooling across Ruby on Rails, Go, and Python. Currently at Coast, she previously led API development at DailyPay and contributed to production infrastructure at Bluecore and Windmill, bringing strong experience in transactional systems, monitoring, and API design. She’s an active open-source contributor, notably making core backend changes to tilt-dev/tilt to improve dev-environment-as-code workflows for Kubernetes. A Duke engineering graduate, Patricia combines hands-on implementation with mentoring experience and a knack for turning internal proto and gRPC refactors into cleaner, more maintainable services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering at Duke University
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
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kubernetes-pods10
grpc10
dockers9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tilt-dev/tilt
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 16 PRs, 43 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Patricia's commits primarily involve modifications to the internal workings of the `tilt-dev/tilt` project, which focuses on defining development environments for microservice applications on Kubernetes. They made several changes to internal proto definitions and gRPC services including adding a new `DebugReply` and modifying existing types. Further commits involved refactoring and enhancements within the `internal/tiltfile` directory, especially with the addition of `composite_service` and associated functions to define service dependencies. The user also updated how images are added to the build process.
dev-environmentkubernetesmicroservicesdevelopment-environment
tilt-dev/pets
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Process for Editing Tons of Services 🐈🐈🐈
Contributions:78 commits, 26 PRs, 55 pushes in 20 days
javaediting
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