# Patrick Hess

> Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickhess

I have extensive experience in designing and implementing complex APIs and ML systems, and in
leading teams across organizational and functional boundaries in all phases of a project lifecycle from the first designs to launch.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Present | Mountain View, California
TLM managing team that builds ML infrastructure (in particular the e2e model lifecycle) for Google Cloud Vertex Search (https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai-search-and-conversation)

### Software Development Intern @ CQL
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Grand Rapids
Web development using C#, ASP MVC framework, JQuery and AngularJS.

### Software Development Intern @ Epic
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed, implemented and tested a generic framework for creating interactive tutorials for Epic Bedside Android app that is used by patients of hospitals to order food, schedule meetings with their physicians etc. The project made it past the first round of official Programmer Quality Assurance testing and was moved to the second round.

Technologies: Java + Android SDK

### Software Development Intern @ CQL
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Grand Rapids
As a software development intern at CQL, I worked on a complex tool that provides robust functionality for a company to efficiently manage its clients, projects, tasks and work flow.

Technologies:  C#, ASP.NET, TSQL and JQuery

### Software Development Intern (Desktop Team) @ Logos Bible Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bellingham
Developed a complex tool, the Interlinear Document generator, using C# + WPF. This tool helps align a translated text with its original source. This tool will be used by the Content Innovation team to create new resources.

Technologies: C#, WPF

### Student Programmer (Database Analyst) @ Calvin College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Worked as a student programmer under the supervision of one of Calvin's database administrators. Created scripts to help Calvin's administration with the management of financial and student/faculty/alumni data. 

Technologies: T-SQL + Microsoft SQL Server 2008

### Software Developer Intern (Document Services Team) @ Logos Bible Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
As part of the Documents Services Team, I worked on Faithlife's cloud, Sync. While working on this team I: created a tool that visualizes and helps detect errors that occur when users upload/download documents, upgraded a number of Sync services to store data as JSON (instead of XML) and created a stateless endpoint for managing a users favorite documents.

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Web Services, TSQL


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Calvin University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics
Calvin University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patrick-hess-7a971a72

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Last updated: 2026-04-12