Ky Patterson
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since February 11, 2025
Ky is a staff-level full-stack web developer with 25 years of experience creating lasting, meaningful web products that help people harness the power of the modern internet. He has worked on every stack layer and performed job functions ranging from feature delivery to product management. Ky has been a lead developer on many long-term platforms from ground to market and a technical lead on hundreds of projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 20 years
- SQL - 18 years
- Node.js - 12 years
- React - 5 years
- MongoDB - 3 years
- Next.js - 2 years
- TypeScript - 1 year
- Tailwind CSS - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Node.js, Express.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Full-stack
The most amazing...
...product I've built is an FDA-approved, doctor-prescribed web audio player to help older adults who are dealing with cognitive decline to manage their mood.
Work Experience
Lead Developer
Plug `N` Play Consultants
- Created UnionRank, a SaaS product to allow unions to efficiently manage membership and seniority data.
- Created a multi-tenant data management platform to support a constellation of data-focused industry-targeted products.
- Developed a novel time-series NoSQL database engine that allows for tracking and reporting on unstructured data over time.
- Designed and managed all back-end infrastructure, selected and set up hosting provider, and set up CI/CD pipeline.
- Created and iterated product roadmap to go from zero to having products in-market and with active clients.
Full-stack Developer (Contract)
LUCID
- Built a streaming web audio experience that leverages an AI model to select music to match user preferences and mood.
- Created a browser-based facial recognition system to aid AI-selected mood recognition.
- Built a time-based mood tracking feature to allow patients and providers to review changes in patient mood over time.
- Developed a music catalog manager to streamline the music curation process.
- Created a healthcare provider portal to allow doctors to onboard patients, review patient adherence to prescriptions, and manage billing.
- Managed and built on a suite of back-end APIs to serve application needs.
- Participated in agile product feature development roadmap process to identify priorities for the product team based on product usage analytics.
Technical Architect, Senior Full-stack Developer
Klick
- Modernized and developed a key React app-building platform worth over $60 million in annual revenue.
- Acted as a lead developer responsible for the launch of over 100 projects.
- Created bespoke survey data collection and analysis platform for healthcare data.
- Oversaw a team of developers and acted as the ultimate technical authority for hundreds of projects.
Lead Developer
ClickZoom
- Created and iterated on an advertising lead generation and management platform for US healthcare data.
- Created a clinical trial enrolment management platform.
- Acted as company HIPAA security officer, responsible for ensuring compliance with US healthcare data management policies, including HIPAA and GCP (clinical trial practices).
- Built and managed WordPress plugins powering hundreds of healthcare websites.
Lead Developer
Adlinkr
- Developed and maintained a multi-tenant email-sending platform featuring automatic real-time delivery adaptation based on responses and campaign metrics.
- Developed and maintained a campaign manager product that allowed users to seamlessly deploy campaigns across dozens of ESPs.
- Created a suite of tools to ingest and analyze 250+ million row datasets of email users and campaign metrics.
- Modernized server infrastructure across the platform, migrated bare-metal servers to a private cloud, and seamlessly upgraded server software with zero downtime.
Lead R&D Developer
Evolusent/Web Impact
- Developed CMS and web development platform used across hundreds of complex websites and web apps.
- Managed a team of 10+ local developers and 20+ offshore developers.
- Liaised with the offshore development team, including on-site visits.
- Acted as the ultimate technical authority for hundreds of website and web-app projects.
Experience
Resonance Rx
https://www.resonance-rx.com/UnionRank
https://app.test.unionrankpro.com/Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, jQuery, Sockets, Zod, Recharts
Tools
GitHub, Jira, RabbitMQ, AWS CloudFormation
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, CSS, HTML, HTML5, Python, C++, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C#.NET, C, Java, GraphQL
Frameworks
Express.js, Flux, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Fluent UI, .NET Core, Ember.js, Serverless Framework
Paradigms
REST, Microservices
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Linux, WordPress, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Google Cloud, Oracle SQL
Other
Shell Scripting, API Gateways, Front-end, Architecture, APIs, Back-end, System Architecture, Full-stack, Charts, Radix UI, Web Scraping, Scraping, Data Scraping, WebSockets, Code Review, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines
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