# Patrick Hurtado > Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickhurtado Recent new grad with a strong software engineering background, entering the field with two years of wide experience ranging from devops to full stack. Interests include furthering my skills in any and every direction and to work on problems with a passion. ## Work Experience ### Full Stack Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2019 – Present | Greater Chicago Area • React Native and Ruby on Rails software engineer on the Meraki Go mobile team • Researched, implemented, and presented solution for an over-the-air update deployment system for our Cisco Meraki Go mobile app. Work on this endeavor reduced turnaround time to deploy a hot fix from several days to less than an hour • Designed and prototyped multiple week-long projects, including converting old mobile devices into active IoT sensors on our Cisco Meraki dashboard • Currently spearheading further work on a hack week project to transform it into a full- fledged Cisco Meraki product • Coordinate across teams and disciplines to deliver new user-facing features on a bi- weekly basis, including account creation, dark mode, and two-factor authentication • Drive to learn has prevented siloing, allowing me to work with a diverse set of technologies such as Jenkins, Microsoft’s App Center, Docker + Kubernetes deployments, and automated end-to-end mobile testing • Orchestrate and deploy our beta and production mobile apps onto the Google Play and Apple App Store • Mentored multiple interns and guided them to implement several key features, giving them a positive experience and ultimately resulting in all of them accepting return offers ### Salesforce Developer @ AbbVie Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Worked on developing a Salesforce platform for administrators to add and modify patient information and their protected health information. Platform required extensive testing of logic to ensure patient information falls within certain criteria with respect to the field itself and its relationship to other information. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Ocient Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chicago Internship designed to gain an overview of the Ocient database system. Projects were written with big data usages in mind, with heavy emphasis on the utilization of C++ and parallelization. Testing frameworks and constant code reviews were also heavily leveraged to continuously integrate clean and functional code. General Overview: - Designed a parallel correctness suite capable of sorting and comparing millions of rows in query result sets. - Created automatic C++ generation system to test Ocient operators for arbitrary queries. - Wrote scripts to automate process of updating various versions of golden result sets in a repository when queries are updated. - Added full test coverage for Ocient ODBC driver connection. ### Product Engineer @ Xaptum Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area Development Operations oriented internship emphasizing independent projects and creative freedom. Projects dealt with designing and implementing ways to visualize and monitor throughput within Xaptum datacenters, as well as calculating various statistics for Internet-of-Things devices across Xaptum network. General Overview: - Implemented a highly-available cluster of machines for secret storage, such as maintaining user access for various systems using Hashicorp’s Consul and Vault. - Completed an ELK stack framework used to monitor Xaptum’s datacenters, keeping track of uptime statistics and connection throughput. - Wrote a Slack bot for Xaptum employees to be notified if certain time series statistics for their datacenters reach critical thresholds. ### Systems/IT Intern @ State Farm Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Led and worked on several internal projects. These projects were across multiple disciplines within the company, providing the opportunity to communicate technical subjects to those with diverse backgrounds. General Overview: - Designed relational database to organize information on available workflows. - Created custom RESTful API for easier communication between front and back end code. - Saved State Farm $388,000 in man hours through automating processes done in Windows System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) with Powershell. ### Course Assistant for Computer Science 225, Data Structures @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Worked closely with instructors and other course staff to improve upon the course, along with helping students with course materials and other related questions. Detailed Responsibilities: - Review and build code for machine problems and labs - Write and review weekly examinations for students - Hold office hours for students needing additional aid on assignments - Answering questions and posting information on online forum - Assisting Teaching Assistants in dedicated lab sections ### Course Assistant for Computer Science 125, Introduction to Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Worked closely with instructors and other course staff to improve upon the course, along with helping students with course materials and other related questions. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Minor in Informatics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patrickhurtado --- Source: https://flows.cv/patrickhurtado JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/patrickhurtado/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23