Technology CTO and software engineer in Colorado on Patrick McDavid

I’ve futzed with video game design in the past with my competitive multiplayer Infight, and the cutsie little handheld shooter, Princess’ Last Stand and a few other toys along the way.

Here’s the story of how I wrote a little piece of Sci-Fi Horror for a game jam and ended up winning some stellar awards!

I was a big hippie in college: birks, hacky sack, environmental minor.

So I made a thing!

I’ve wanted to do this videogame for years.

I did poorly in high school.

When you pull on a modern headset running VisionOS or Meta’s Android variant you get to place arbitrary software applications floating around you in space.

In the modern digital landscape, email remains a cornerstone of communication.

Blog’d been kind quiet, yeah?

My five year old has been taking some online programming classes that teach fundamentals using block programming.

Keith Reid-Cleveland with BuiltInColorado featured BombBomb and its engineering staff in a piece about our work environment, values and goals.

I’ve been feeling a bit in-between lately.

I was very kindly invited to speak at DisurptHR Denver in April on the subject of using video to recruit the excellent talent.

One of my favorite technology events, DVLP Denver was kind enough to allow me present a talk I’m pretty fond of, Serverless Hotdog Detection last fall.

SaaStr Annual is a celebration of software in the cloud, focusing on the people and the companies that’ve thrived in this new medium.

Amazon’s Two-Pizza-Teams is a scaling methodology that suggests organizational designers ensure independence and speed by keeping ownership of products to teams that can be fed by no more than two pizzas.

My wife Briana and I reached an impasse with our three-year-old a few weekends ago.

I’ve recruited more than 30 excellent software developers and other technical staff to BombBomb in the last several years.

I’ve been trying to spend a little more time reflecting on where I am, where I want to go, and where I’ve been.

What’s important to you about where you work?

BombBomb’s Bombcast invited myself and their VP of Product to talk about our Fall 2018 releases and some of the story behind them!

This is reblogged from my interview on BuiltIn Colorado BombBomb’s video messaging app helps businesses drive sales and convert leads by building trust and engaging customers face to face — even when they can’t be physically present with a client.

This is reblogged from my post on the BombBomb Developer Blog I wrote here a few months ago about Easy Cloudfront cache-busting with Travis-CI.

2017 was a year of upheaval and growth by necessity.

Reblogged from developer.bombbomb.com I’ve had the enormous fortune to lead an engineering organization comprised of women and men who delight in challenging one another every day.

I’ve got a goal for 2018 to attend four tech and leadership conferences.

Photo credit to Umai Hotdogs of Sacremento for their scrumptious looking dogs.

In a very beardy time, I spent a week with my man Cheech assembling some AWS infrastructure patterns into a fun global fault tolerance proof of concept project called Gaia.

Work work… My wife, Briana is a very talented Geographic Information Systems Analyst.

TL;DR Introduction: Stoic Secrets The world stares solidly at us, seemingly assured of itself, its structure and its meaning.

Six months before the release of Mac OS X in 2001, some friends and I were excited about Apple’s new OS.