Patrick Wright

Chief Engineering Officer at WillowTree

Patrick Wright is the Chief Engineering Officer at WillowTree. Patrick has over 12 years of experience in software engineering and has been with WillowTree for two years. Prior to WillowTree, they were the Director of Engineering at Caring.com for 11 years. At Caring.com, they oversaw the growth of the company from a small startup to a profitable business employing over 150 people. Patrick designed and built much of the software platform, as part of an engineering team of 8. The suite included an SEO-optimized content and user engagement site focused on eldercare topics, with ads, lead generation forms, 3 newsletter products, and a custom content management system. Additionally, they built a directory of eldercare services, with integrations to private and public data sources, comprehensive APIs for partners, and a web- and mobile-optimized user interface. Patrick also created a lead generation and qualification platform, including a telephony application integrated with Twilio, a qualification tool used by over 100 agents, and analytics built on Redshift and Looker. Furthermore, they built a machine learning platform which assisted in assessing lead quality at multiple points in the conversion funnel, and drove SEM keyword bidding. Lastly, they created a lead integration platform which connected with hundreds of service providers via custom adapters. The production stack was Ruby on Rails, running over Postgres and MySQL, deployed at AWS. The stack was scaled to handle millions of monthly visitors, and 10000+ new leads daily. Nagios, DataDog, Papertrail, Sentry and Pagerduty were used to monitor production. Continuous integration and deployment were done using Github, Travis and Capistrano. Patrick's day-to-day work involved designing and building new features, performance tuning, helping other developers, and working with the business and product managers to solve problems as they come up. They used Scrum to plan and execute product development work.

Patrick Wright has a MSc in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Cranfield University and a MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Their manager is Tobias Dengel, CEO. Patrick Wright works with Jamie Timm - Chief Delivery Officer, Blake Sirach - Chief Product Officer, and Keith Miller - Chief Marketing Officer.

Links

Timeline

  • Chief Engineering Officer

    Current role

View in org chart