Patrick Padgett — Music, work & words

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Patrick Padgett — a square film print with a '88 7 14 date stamp

Be kind,
rewind.

The producer who tunes billing platforms by day and bass amps by night.

SP · 120 MIN · HI-FI STEREO · NOT RATED

I make systems that turn raw switch data into bills that are right. For fourteen years I was the top-tier expert on Sprint's billing mediation platforms, working the data off Nortel, Ericsson and Lucent gear. Later I ran infrastructure automation at Jabil and Raymond James: Kubernetes, Jenkins and a lot of Linux.

In 2000 I wrote corkscrew, a small C tool that tunnels SSH through HTTP proxies. It got a review in Linux Magazine, a mention in 2600: The Hacker's Quarterly (Vol. 19, Issue 2, Summer 2002) and its own Wikipedia article; it still ships in most distributions.

I play bass and produce records. The newest is Korupsi by Ledakan Pemuda, recorded in Jakarta in 2019 and finished in the US in 2025. I live in the Tampa Bay area.

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Music

KORUPSI Ledakan PemudaJKT 2019 → USA 2025 · 11 tracks

Eleven tracks of Indonesian protest music pushed through modern dubstep bass. I produced, mixed and played on it; the 30-second previews and the full record live on the music site.

▶ Play the record Ledakan Pemuda ↗

Bass player first. Producer because somebody had to be.

The coffee table

Every cover I was ever on, if you believe the coffee table. Pick one up.

Tap a cover to pick it up · tap again to put it down

Madballs

Nine gross-out rubber balls, one per obsession. Everything that was under the bed in 1988 and, honestly, still is.

Blow-Hard BartNintendo

NES → SNES. Blowing in the cartridge worked. Don't argue.
Road-Rash RudyThrasher

Skate mag, skate rock, Vision Street Wear high-tops.
Epic EddieFaith No More

The Real Thing. Mike Patton doing whatever that was.
Jungle JimmyGuns N' Roses

Appetite. RIP Magazine on the floor next to it.
Neon NateSynthwave

Countach, Testarossa, neon grid to the horizon.
Wax-Pack WallyGarbage Pail Kids

In the shoebox under the bed, sorted by grossness.
Slime-Time SamNickelodeon

You Can't Do That on Television. "I don't know" — slime.
Falkor FredNeverending Story

Falkor. The Nothing. We don't talk about the horse.
Inconceivable IkePrincess Bride

As you wish. Have fun storming the castle.

Work

WhoIsOn.p

unit WhoIsOn; {Hermes II external}
interface
  uses HermesTypes, ANSI;
  procedure Main (var u: UserRec);
implementation
  procedure Main (var u: UserRec);
  begin
    ClearScreen;
    SetColor(cyan);
    WriteLn('Callers online: ', NumOnline);
    if u.baud < 2400 then
      WriteLn('...patience.');
  end;
end.▌

It started with a Mac, a modem and a phone line the rest of the house wanted back.

1992Hermes II BBS — SysOp. One line, ANSI menus, message bases, and the first users I ever had.
1993THINK Pascal — externals for the board: my first real programs.
1994Perl and Linux — and production Linux ever since.
1995Advertisnet — System Administrator at a rural ISP selling dial-up to Lake of the Ozarks residents, and supporting its Macintosh clients.
2000corkscrew — SSH over HTTP proxies, in C. Linux Magazine, 2600 (Vol. 19 No. 2), Wikipedia, still in the distros.
2001–2015Sprint — Tier-3 SME, wireless & wireline billing mediation. Nortel, Ericsson, Lucent AMA/CDR. $2M saved, +250% throughput, −50% alarm time-to-resolution.
2015–2019Jabil · Raymond James — infrastructure automation: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, ELK.
nowLooking. Tampa Bay FL · remote, hybrid or contract. Full résumé on channel 4 →

Be kind,rewind.

Music

The coffee table

Madballs

Work

Be kind,
rewind.