Patrick Menlove
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since March 26, 2022
Patrick is an experienced full-stack developer with extensive experience, having co-founded and scaled bootstrapped SaaS products. He's a passionate problem solver with over a decade of commercial experience in software development. Patrick enjoys working on full-stack projects, where he can apply his technical skills and leverage his entrepreneurial expertise.
Portfolio
Experience
- Full-stack - 7 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- React - 5 years
- SaaS - 4 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Stripe - 2 years
- Card Payments - 2 years
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Node.js, Back-end Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Agentic Frameworks, Cloud, Docker
The most amazing...
...thing I bring to projects is my entrepreneurial nature mixed with my technical skill set. I love diving deep into solving business problems with code.
Work Experience
Co-founder
Pitchlane
- Co-founded a successful SaaS product enabling richer experiences in B2B sales with video.
- Led all aspects of the technical and product strategy and execution, infrastructure, and the management of the technical team.
- Mentored junior developers to senior level and established and promoted best practices.
- Oversaw the hiring and management of outsourced and offshore developers.
Freelance Software Developer
Freelance
- Developed client websites and automated business processes to generate client leads.
- Created an airport parking comparison website, the name of which is under NDA.
- Built a bitcoin calculator affiliate website, the name of which is under NDA.
Founder
Effixient.io
- Bootstrapped and exited a micro-SaaS product single-handedly in a niche market.
- Developed deep market knowledge and relationships in the recruitment space.
- Developed the product from MVP to scale, managing priorities at every stage.
Senior Software Engineer
HeidiPay
- Gained product knowledge in eCommerce, checkout flows, payments, financial services, and lending products while working at a buy-now-pay-later startup.
- Performed a senior role in a team working with Django, React, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Created a PCI-compliant payment system and abstraction over third-party payment gateways, and designed critical architecture and areas of the product.
- Mentored and trained two junior engineers while developing key services.
Software Engineer II
Skyscanner
- Developed a highly-available, rolling update deployment of the internal domain name system (DNS) servers, allowing zero-downtime production changes.
- Built an internal portal using Python Flask and AngularJS that allowed developers to self-serve AWS credentials and resources across multiple accounts, maintaining strong ownership of the service.
- Scaled the company's use of AWS into multiple AWS accounts, using Terraform and CloudFormation to orchestrate complex infrastructure deployment.
- Contributed to creating and maintaining the company's credential management solution, improving the security posture, and enabling other Skyscanner developers.
- Contributed to the analysis of design reviews relating to AWS services and infrastructure capabilities.
- Improved internal support processes with automation, including Slackbot and Jira automation.
- Supported and developed an API gateway service running at the scale of many thousand requests per second.
Education
Master's Degree in Software Engineering, minor in Economics and Business Management
The University of Glasgow - Glasgow, UK
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
Machine Learning
Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Vue, REST APIs, Stripe, Stripe API, Google Maps API, OpenAI API
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Zapier, n8n, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Adyen Payments, GitHub, Claude, ChatGPT, Shadcn, PrestaShop
Languages
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python 3, CSS, HTML, SQL, GraphQL
Frameworks
Next.js, Django, Serverless Framework, Cypress, Agentic Frameworks, Selenium, Tailwind CSS, Flask
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Test Automation, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, REST
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Heroku, AWS Lambda, Vertex AI, WooCommerce, Netlify
Storage
MongoDB, JSON, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB
Other
Software Engineering, SaaS, DevOps Engineer, API Integration, Full-stack, Full-stack Development, Web Development, APIs, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Back-end, Back-end Development, Cloud, Render, Workflow Automation, Quality Assurance (QA), Maintenance, Workflow, Workflow Automation & System Integration, Serverless, Tools, Card Payments, Stripe Payments, Web App Development, Containers, SaaS Product Management, Webhooks, Software Architecture, Web Services, OpenAI GPT-4 API, OpenAI, OAuth, Prompt Engineering, Front-end Architecture, Video Streaming, Large Language Models (LLMs), Open-source LLMs, Front-end, Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Anthropic, Vibe Coding, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Scalability, Video Processing, Airtable, Vite, Digital Payments, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Supabase, Strapi, Machine Learning, BIND DNS, Computer Networking, PCI DSS, Headless Software, eCommerce, eCommerce APIs, Styled-components, Cursor AI, Browser Automation, Web Scraping, Design, Risk Management, Data Science
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