# Patrick McEwen (@pmcewen.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/pmcewen.com
Headline: Director of Data & Analytics | Backend Engineer | Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL & AWS | Data Platforms and Product Develop

## Career

- **Director of Data and Analytics at Inside Lacrosse** (Feb 2024 - Present)
  \- Promoted to Director of Data & Analytics in recognition of leadership across data, analytics, product development, and engineering.
  \- Led backend development for the 2026 rebuild of the Inside Lacrosse website, taking the project from product requirements through data modeling, API development, and production deployment.
  \- Built the new backend primarily with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, deployed on AWS, with supporting infrastructure including S3, OpenSearch, ElastiCache/Valkey, and modern CI/CD.
  \- Took on significant product leadership during the rebuild, translating product discussions directly into data models and APIs including a new version of the live evaluation product
  \- Utilized increasingly sophisticated AI-assisted development workflows, progressing from code review and suggestions to agentic software development
- **Data Specialist at Inside Lacrosse** (Feb 2019 - Jan 2024)
  Baltimore, MD
  \- Automated the college lacrosse scoreboard, replacing manual score entry with Python-based data scraping and AWS Lambda
  \- Built automated live-statistics pipelines capable to update game data, significantly expanding the scale and timeliness of the site's college lacrosse data.
  \- Developed internal tools and dashboards for managing live statistics collection, initially with Angular and later Streamlit, allowing Python data-processing and scraping workflows to run directly within internal applications
  \- Co-led product development of a video-based player evaluation system designed to produce consistent, standardized scores for high school boys' and girls' lacrosse players across positions and evaluators.
  \- Made significant contributions to the development of Inside Lacrosse's college fantasy lacrosse product, helping translate product requirements into data-driven functionality.

## Skills

### Technical
- Angular
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Elasticsearch
- FastAPI
- Pandas (Software)
- PostgreSQL
- Pydantic
- Python (Programming Language)
### Business
- Product Development
### Other
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon S3
- AWS Lambda
- Data Cleaning
- Data Monitoring
- Data Pipelines
- Data Scraping
- IPython
- Sports Analytics
- Streamlit

## Publications

- Sports in the Atmosphere — pmcewen.leaflet.pub (Aug 2026) https://pmcewen.leaflet.pub/3msbdrk7nek2f
- Moats in the Atmosphere — pmcewen.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://pmcewen.leaflet.pub/3mihbkh7fj22c
- On Using ATProto to Improve Social Media Habits — pmcewen.leaflet.pub (Oct 2025) https://pmcewen.leaflet.pub/3m36ipbtg2s2y

## Education

- **University of Wisconsin-Madison** (Aug 2007 - May 2010)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-mcewen