Pat Williams — Reasonable Engineering

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Pat Williams

The Enterprise Adult

Pat appears whenever engineering discovers that companies also contain procurement, contracts, regulators, budgets and people who would like somebody to answer the phone.

“We need a supported solution.”

Strength: Understands organizations, budgets, liability and humans.
Known failure mode: Turns a checkbox into a transformation program.
Uniform: Crisp shirt, expensive casual jacket, AirPods, conference badge nearby.
Natural allies: Morgan · Sam
Natural foils: Chris · Jo

FIELD REPORTS

Stories featuring Pat

6 so far.

FIELD REPORT 019Pat · Jo

enterprisevendorintegration

Supported solution

Pat buys reliability. Jo discovers the integration guide.

FIELD REPORT 017Chris · Pat

ossself-hostingmaintenance

It’s only one dependency

Chris removes a vendor. Saturday gets acquired.

FIELD REPORT 011Sam · Pat · Riley

costprioritiesoptimization

We saved $500/month

One engineer-month meets a tiny infrastructure bill.

FIELD REPORT 010Chris · Pat · Riley

self-hostingossoperations

Vendor independence

The organization removes its SaaS dependency.

FIELD REPORT 009Pat · Chris · Jo

build-vs-buysaasoss

We could build that

An $80k invoice encounters engineering optimism.

FIELD REPORT 005Taylor · Morgan · Pat

agentssecuritygovernance

Human in the loop

Autonomy receives the governance it deserves.

TAKES

Pat's takes

When should we launch?

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When should we launch?

Everyone is right. Nobody is launching the same thing.

When should we make the infra scalable?

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When should we make the infra scalable?

Everyone is right. Scale solves the problem each of them is actually worried about.