Patrick McElhaney

Full-stack software architect with three decades of hands-on coding experience, a deep knowledge of Agile processes, and a passion for building high-performing teams. My core values are curiosity, transparency, and agency.

2023-Present Walgreens

Enterprise Architect

• Designed and built a "Technology Landscape" tool that visualizes crowd-sourced information about 800 technologies used across the enterprise.
• Established an Agile process for recording and increasing the transparency of architecture decisions, reducing the need for slow-moving governance such as architecture review boards.
• Connected people from a range of disciplines across the organization through initiatives such as standardizing communication processes in MS Teams and running a leadership book club.
• Led a presentation series called "Architecture Assembly", bringing together ~150 people from Product and Engineering each week.

2021-2023 Walgreens

Web Front End Architect

• Recruited a diverse team of talented and motivated engineers and led the development of a new web application for Walgreens Health.
• Architected a world-class component library and CI/CD pipeline built on modern tools and technologies, including Web Components (Lit Element), TypeScript, ESLint, Jest, Stryker, Playwright, Storybook, Style Dictionary, and GitHub Actions.

2018-2021 Jack Henry & Associates

Software Engineer, Advisory / Software Engineering Manager

• Invented a DSL that decouples business rules from presentation and led the development of an expansive web component library, reducing cycle time from weeks to hours.
• Organized a small team who, meeting one another for the first time, with a technology no one had prior experience using (Xamarin), with limited support from the larger organization, worked closely with customers and brought a successful mobile app to market in six months.
• Formally managed a team of 11 user interface (JavaScript) and middleware (C#) engineers; established a Kanban-based process to support customer issues quickly and efficiently.

2017-2018 Siemens

Advanced Software Engineer

• Established a framework to measurably improve test automation across 20 repositories spanning Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, and Scala.
• Spearheaded an effort that saw the bug count drop from more than 500 to less than 100 in two months.
• Performed numerous code reviews and collaboratively crafted a code review guideline document.

2015-2017 Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)

UX Development Manager

• Led three new Scrum teams through an Agile transformation
• Developed precision front end coding standards and oversaw the transition to ES6.
• Turned around Unity, a product that was flailing and near death, but became the flagship of FIS's Wealth & Retirement solutions.
• Introduced automated unit testing; coverage increased from 0 to 70% in the first year.

2012-2015 Bottomline Technologies

Senior UI Developer / Architect / ScrumMaster

• Owned the UI architecture road map and oversaw HTML/CSS/JS coding for a team of 30 developers.
• Facilitated and enforced global coding standards, improving uniformity and quality across LOBs and continents.
• Championed and led the development of an exciting new business intelligence product.
• Led a six-month effort to reach WCAG accessibility compliance without impacting an aggressive development timeline.
• As ScrumMaster, helped the UI Architecture team double their velocity in three sprints.

2010-2012 Ally Financial

Senior Web Presentation Architect

• Developed a complex interest calculator, CD laddering tutorial, and interactive graph for Ally.com.
• Designed and developed a powerful JavaScript charting framework
• Built Ally's first mobile website
• Authored the team's JavaScript style guide

2000-2010 American City Business Journals

Lead Developer / Web Developer

• A variety of long-lived full-stack development projects (MS SQL Server, ColdFusion, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Python)

2000 Unifi Technology Group

Senior Application Developer

1999-2000 Computer Associates

Senior Application Engineer

1997-1999 CC Communications

Web Developer