Dr. Patrick Smyth is Staff Developer Relations Engineer at [Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/), where he shows developers how to deploy AI and other applications with 0 CVEs using Chainguard Images. Patrick has a PhD in the digital humanities and in a previous life led technical bootcamps for researchers at Columbia University. Prior to working at Chainguard, Patrick ran Iota, a consulting business where he worked with clients such as [Space Telescope Science Institute](https://www.stsci.edu/), [Pandas](https://numfocus.org/project/pandas), [Sigstore](https://www.sigstore.dev/), [Enthought](https://www.enthought.com/), and the [DHRIFT](https://dhrift.org/) project.
Patrick's PhD dissertation, [Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction](https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4311/), explores hacking as a way to express autonomy, particularly for the disabled. It received the Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year from the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, as well as the prize for Best Prospectus.
In his free time you can find Patrick swimming in a frozen lake or hanging out with his six-month-old baby.