Patrick Perkins
Senior Platform & Web Application Engineer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Perkins is an Application Developer based in Philadelphia with nine years of experience building web tools and library systems, currently engineering backend services for a new library catalog and digital repository at the University of Pennsylvania. His background blends game-design training and hands-on web development—React, Redux, Ruby on Rails and Sinatra—to create educational and cultural-heritage applications that move from concept to deployed prototype. Patrick contributes to open-source library software and builds utility libraries and playful automation (historically including Twitter bots), reflecting a mix of pragmatic engineering and creative experimentation. He pairs user-facing empathy from VR instruction and content creation with institutional collaboration across university libraries, making him adept at translating scholarly needs into maintainable software.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Game Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Game Design at New York University
Github Skills (55)
solr10
ruby10
automation10
blacklight10
virtualization10
vagrant10
audio-player9
selectbox8
video-player8
collation8
erb8
iiif8
algorithm7
puppeteer7
intellisense7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lilblizzard/wiki_diptych
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 4 months
KislakCenter/VisualCollation
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Visual collation builder
Contributions:65 commits, 131 PRs, 362 pushes in 1 year
collationbuildervisualization
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.