Patrick Hallisey
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPatrick Hallisey is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, microservice architectures, cloud-scale platform development, and DevOps. At Microsoft since 2013 he focuses on scalable platform and CI/CD engineering—work that includes refactoring the Azure SDK for Java publishing pipeline to add snapshot support, retries, and more resilient release and versioning logic. He’s an active open-source contributor who integrated Mocha into the Chutzpah JavaScript test runner to improve interoperability and failure reporting. Patrick’s career spans founding a small hosted-services business and prior Air Force systems administration, giving him both product-facing engineering instincts and operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (42)
azure-devops-server10
javascript10
mstest10
powershell-710
testing10
maven310
teste10
testing-library10
mochajs10
javascripts10
ci-cd10
azure-devops10
maven10
powershell10
uitesting10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:94 reviews, 87 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the CI/CD pipeline for publishing Maven packages within the Azure SDK for Java repository. Their work included refactoring the `Publish-MavenPackages.ps1` script to enhance resilience, adding support for snapshot publishing, incorporating features like retries and error handling, and integrating with Azure DevOps. Furthermore, the user refactored Maven package version checks and release logic, ensuring accurate and efficient deployments.
azure-resourcesversionedazure-functionssdkazure-services
mmanela/chutzpah
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Chutzpah is an open source JavaScript test runner which enables you to run unit tests using QUnit, Jasmine, Mocha and TypeScript.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the implementation and integration of Mocha test framework within the Chutzpah project. They added Mocha-specific files, runner integrations, and test definitions. The user also focused on creating HTML templates and ensuring the correct reporting of test results, including failures. Their work encompassed both the testing framework and the integration with the existing Chutzpah testing tool.
avajestunitjasminetest-runner
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