Patrick
Padgett.

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 picked up 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.