About

I’m Patrick Schless. I’m the technical co-founder and CTO of The Community Journalism Project, where we build software for local newsrooms.

Before CJP I was at Braintree (payments, on the engineering side of the PayPal acquisition) and TempoIQ (a time-series database that became part of Carbon Black). Twelve years of mostly Rails and Postgres, some Go, a stretch of operations work I miss more than I expected to.

I write here when I have something specific to say. Mostly notes on shipping, on infra at small companies, and on what I’ve found works for newsrooms that don’t have an engineering team.