Patrick has worked with audio and video signals for 16 years, starting as a recording studio intern and a hotel AV technician. He travelled through live corporate events, live concerts and touring, as an audio systems engineer, before he moved to deploying integrated AV systems. After installing new systems for various clients over several years, he eventually moved over to the ‘client side’, aka taking care of one client (Zillow)’s AV deployments. This allowed for a deeper dive into software and network engineering, in an attempt to build tools that can maintain lean AV deployments, robust observability, and high availability. 

Seeing how internal technical infrastructure is maintained at a large software enterprise revealed how many tools and capabilities exist in software and networking that are yet to be developed in enterprise AV. Patrick aims to apply modern principles of site reliability and devlops into AV deployments and enjoys building custom tools to fill the gaps along the way.