Patrick S. Barrett

WORK HISTORY

Auxon | December 2021 - November 2023

Started, but didn't get a chance to finish, a development-focused local container orchestration system initially aimed at embedded development environments: Conductor
Helped to build a RoS2-based simulated test system.
Wrote a product integration for the rust tracing ecosystem, tracing-modality.
Maintained and expanded the Rust Modality SDK.
Lead "translation" of internal docs for external consumption, helping to explain complex topics in much simpler ways.

SmartThings | July 2020 - Oct 2021

Designed, architected, and was the lead contributor to the development of SmartThings' Hub Edge Driver Platform. It moves device integrations from running in the SmartThings cloud to running on hubs, embedded Linux devices, already owned by customers. It is written almost entirely in Rust, with calls out to the legacy C application where needed.
- Wrote nearly all the code for the "Runner", the code that runs within the OS sandbox, providing an seemingly native Lua + LuaSocket API along with custom APIs.
- Wrote the original PoC and continued to be a core contributor to the "Broker", the code that runs outside the sandbox and accepts requests for any action headed for the outside world, such as socket operations, logging, data storage, event handling, and anything else that is more than pure computation.
Wrote, from scratch, a pure lua implementation of a coroutine runtime called cosock which provides the full socket API offered by LuaSocket, except it allows code that is intended to use LuaSocket in a single-threaded fashion to be run cooperatively with other code also using LuaSocket.
Wrote initial LAN Edge Device Drivers to be used as reference by users.
Wrote a large portion of the documentation guides and references.
- Example of a guide that was written entirely by myself: Writing an RPC Client Edge Driver

SmartThings | April 2018 - July 2020

Personally architected & implemented the hub-side of a system for setting up a new hub's wifi connection.
- Mostly written in Rust with some C for hardware interface abstractions.
- Built using Hyper directly.
Re-designed the device discovery subsystem to appropriately fan-out device requests based a filters provided by the ST cloud and/or app.

SmartThings | May 2017 - April 2018

Rewrote much of the existing cloud <-> LAN interface code from using a pthread-per-connection model to a single-threaded system built on libevent.
Helped maintain hub device handlers, written in C, for devices such as Hue & Sonos.

Exosite | Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

Designed and developed new embedded software library for Exosite's upcoming 'Advanced Device Connectivity' initiative.
- Library was designed for robust device to cloud security using better than industry standard encryption & mutual authentication protocols while maintaining a very high level of developer ergonomics and ease of use.
Assisted with the design of the 'Advanced Device Connectivity' cloud systems.

Exosite | Dec 2015 - Sept 2016

Reviewed most of Exosite's marketing materials for technical accuracy.
Attended industry tradeshows, fielding all questions about Exosite's technical products and helped potential customers understand if and how Exosite's products could help them build their IoT products.
Remained as tier 3 customer support.
- Handled most tickets that were suspected to be legitimate problems found in Exosite's systems.
- Handled all questions about Exosite's CoAP API.

Exosite | May 2013 - Dec 2015

Was the main technical customer support representative.
Wrote, developed, and maintained Exosite's documentation and documentation website including a custom written static site generator.
Helped create and run several training seminars designed for Exosite's partners.
Helped in development and testing of the introduction of Exosite's CoAP API.

Exosite | May 2012 - May 2013

Worked as part of a team to develop various embedded software projects, switching projects as business needs changed.
- Ported eLua to a new embedded platform, personally wrote modules to support modem AT command interface with modules to communicate using UDP, TCP, HTTP, and an abstracted interface to interact with our platform web API.
- Sole developer and maintainer of Exosite’s official Arduino Library.
Investigated various open hardware platforms and wrote example code to Exosite-enable the devices.
Assembled prototypes to demonstrate potential customer applications.
Various small projects including Javascript Widgets, Small PCB Population.

Mahtomedi Public School District FabLab | June 2011 - June 2013

3M - Payment Components Business | March 2011 - May 2012

Responsible for making and shipping material samples.
Created method for creating rapid prototypes using customer’s designs.
Regularly assembled, laminated, and tested various card constructions for compatibility with ISO and ANSI standards.

Century College - Engineering Department | Spring & Fall 2010, Spring 2011

Re-setup all FabLab Equipment after computer upgrades, including: Epilog Laser Cutters, Stratasys 3D Printer, Z-Corp 3D Printer, Sherline Mills and Lathe.
Created method for using a never used Roland Mini Mill for milling PCB’s.
Performed routine maintenance of FabLab equipment.
Kept inventory of all materials available to students in engineering lab and submitted purchase orders when necessary.
Instructed students on proper use of software and FabLab equipment.

Bachelors of Electrical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN