Patrick Hanford
Skills
Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, Elixir, Kotlin
Frontend: React, Vue, NextJS, React Native, TailwindCSS
Backend: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Entity Framework, Phoenix, GraphQL
Cloud/DevOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, GitHub Actions
Experience
Robert Half International
Fullstack Software Engineer | Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
- Migrated Angular Cordova mobile app to React Native, reducing build times by 70% and achieving 99.5% crash-free sessions across iOS and Android.
- Architected multi-database sync system (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL) using Serenity framework, consolidating data from 8 legacy sources into unified reporting.
- Built documentation and support site with streamlined Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations to enable a small development team to keep up with support demand through self-service and more intuitive response vectors.
- Containerized >15 Laravel sites with Docker Swarm for a B2B consulting agency; cutting deployment time from hours to minutes and eliminating environment drift issues.
- Built real-time video conferencing platform (Django/NextJS) supporting 500+ concurrent users with WebRTC and Redis pub/sub.
- Unified CI/CD infrastructure across Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, reducing pipeline maintenance overhead substantially.
Notable Projects
TakePoint (takepoint.dev)
AI-Enhanced Sprint Planning Platform
- Built AI-powered sprint planning tool using RAG with OpenAI, generating actionable story breakdowns and retrospective insights in real-time.
- Engineered bi-directional Jira sync, enabling teams to import backlogs, refine stories with AI assistance, and push changes back without context switching.
- Reduced OpenAI API costs by 46% through semantic caching, prompt compression, and intelligent context windowing without degrading output quality.
- Deployed infrastructure via CloudFormation with self-hosted Docker option for enterprise clients requiring on-premise data residency.