Patrick Hereford
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Hereford is an engineering leader and MBA who blends business strategy with hands-on software delivery across 13 years, currently serving as AVP, Software Engineering at Travelers after Corvus Insurance's acquisition. He has repeatedly scaled teams (from 3 to 27 engineers), built underwriting and data pipelines that dramatically improved operational efficiency, and shipped web platforms using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and Elixir. Patrick’s background in marketing and market research informs product decisions and cross-functional partnerships, enabling him to align tech roadmaps with go-to-market needs. He has held multiple CTO roles at startups and led platform and SSO initiatives, demonstrating both startup agility and enterprise discipline. Based in Bedford, NH, he pairs an MIT engineering degree with an MBA from Boston College, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and commercial insight. Behind the scenes he often engineers tooling and internal bots to surface engineering bottlenecks and improve team productivity.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (82)
genstage10
broadway10
multistage10
data-processing9
api9
apollo-client9
relay9
concurrent9
elixir9
absinthe9
salesforce-rest-api9
ruby-client8
data-ingestion8
view-helpers8
graphql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phereford/d3api
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 2 months
apiapi-wrapperdiablo-3rubyruby-api-wrapper
phereford/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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